Illiopolis News

A proposal to open a strip club in a former bar near Illiopolis appears to be dead in the water.

NOBODY EXPECTS a strip club operator to have a doctorate in rocket science, but is it too much to expect even a G-string's worth of common sense? Apparently it is, judging from the petition presented last week to - and, thankfully, unanimously rejected by - Sangamon County Zoning Board of Appeals.

Outskirts Gentlemen's Club near Illiopolis won't be an anything-goes place, its would-be proprietors told the Sangamon County Zoning Board of Appeals during a packed hearing on Thursday.

Members of the Sangamon County Zoning and Building Safety Committee say "no" to a proposed strip club near Illiopolis.

A former tavern near Illiopolis might become an exotic-dancing club under a proposal now before a Sangamon County zoning board.

Deborah Seale, executive director of the SIU telehealth program. PHOTOCOURTESYOFSIU PUBLIC AFFAIRS The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine has long been the heart of healthcare in the central Illinois region, and now thanks to ber-modern medicine, it's circulating lifelines to hospitals in every corner of the state.

An Illiopolis woman and five children were injured in a single-vehicle rollover crash Thursday night.

New gas pipelines sit in a field near Illiopolis, Ill., background, Wednesday, Feb.