Mount Carmel News

Francis Tortorici, center, jokes with fellow alumni of Mount Carmel High School, now Seward Elementary School, during a tour of the school in Auburn Saturday.

WVC student wins $10,000 in Illinois Lottery's 'Go for the Gold' The winning ticket WVC student and Borowiak's IGA employee Franklin Frazier reacts to the $10,000 "find." He bought an Illinois Lottery ...

Mt. Carmel drivers may soon find themselves driving through road construction on North Cherry Street.

Francis Tortorici, center, jokes with fellow alumni of Mount Carmel High School, now Seward Elementary School, during a tour of the school in Auburn Saturday.

Around 9:58 pm Eastern Time a 3.1 magnitude tremor occurred in the Tri-State near Mt.

Hoisted high on the shoulders of the men, the statue of the Virgin Mary carrying the Baby Jesus glided over the thousands of heads in Melrose Park's streets Sunday, the culmination of the four-day Feast of Our ...

The 115-year tradition of the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel started with a wife's prayer to the Virgin Mary to save the life of her sick husband.

With black-framed glasses perched on the tip of her nose and gold-tipped pins pressed between forefinger and thumb, Corinne Principe scrutinizes the embroidered dress adorning the life-sized Our Lady of Mt.

A motorcyclist was killed Thursday when he collided with a truck in Gibson County.

Festivities for the 115th annual Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Melrose Park, held each year in honor of the Virgin Mary, begins Thursday with the street festival outside of the church.

Patricia Ann Owens, Wabash Valley College, Mt. Carmel, IL -- School Library Journal, 7/10/2008 Prince Among Slaves .

The Lincoln Heritage Museum at Lincoln College will soon host a Smithsonian Institution display entitled "Journey Stories." The Illinois Humanities Council has selected six organizations in rural Illinois ...

A picture from reader Rick Lewallen, taken at the Mission Viejo apartment complex on the West Side of Evansville.

A magnitude-2.9 earthquake was recorded six miles from Mount Carmel, Ill. at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday.

Courier & Press staff report Originally published 07:59 a.m., June 24, 2008 Updated 07:59 a.m., June 24, 2008 Mount Carmel, Ill.

When I lived on the North Side, I never got used to the idea that my ZIP code was home to six sushi joints and a dozen Starbucks, but not one White Sox bar.

No trespassing signs in Mt. Carmel, Illinois are no joke. Twenty-five people were arrested between Friday and Sunday for violating signs posted at the town's levee.

The Authority regularly publishes or supports publication of criminal justice research and evaluation reports and bulletins, crime prevention brochures, technical manuals, data guides, statistical profiles, ...

Tex Craft is keeping a close eye on the rising Wabash River at Grayville, Ill. He's hoping the recent flooding will return what it stole in spring 1985.

Rising water from the Wabash River is forcing people out of their homes in Mount Carmel, Illinois.