Danville News

Vermilion County officials want to go ahead and choose Integrys as its alternative electric supplier rather than seeking bids for a program that would pool county residents into one energy account.

A Tilton woman was injured Tuesday morning when her car struck the rear of another that had slowed in traffic.

Jamaica High School students Danyale Richards, left, and Malerie Lane place a wall on a back yard shed on Friday.

Rex and Cindy Nail of Litchfield, Ill., are announcing the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Kimberly Diane to Jeffrey M. Shank, son of James and Teresa Shank of Brighton.

What for years has looked like a long shot - an expansion of casino gambling in Illinois, including a facility in Danville - is looking more certain after an Illinois House vote on Wednesday.

Danville school board members on Wednesday threw support behind a restructuring plan aimed at boosting instruction and student achievement at North Ridge Middle School.

Every weekday morning for last two years, crossing guard Debra Deatley has helped K-5 students cross busy Main Street to get to Cannon Elementary School safely.

A Westville woman was ticketed after a three-vehicle collision near a construction zone on westbound Interstate 74 in on Tuesday morning.

Danville schools officials are pursuing the purchase of the former Holy Family School, which will house the district's alternative education program starting this fall.

Rather than just a handful of Vermilion County Board members, all 27 will now be involved Tuesday night in the initial decision whether to ask voters for either a tax increase to support the Vermilion Manor Nursing Home or the authority to sell the county-owned facility.

A Savoy man who had the unenviable task of hanging cabinets on his own has developed a device to make the job easier.

Vermilion County voters may be asked in a referendum this fall whether they would support selling the county-owned Vermilion Manor Nursing Home or support a tax increase to keep it financially solvent.

Jocko's is located at 305 W. Williams Street in Danville. You can also contact them at 217-443-6500 Stan Foster has quite a unique hobby.

Vermilion County sheriff's department officers present the colors during the police memorial service at Sunset Memorial Park in Danville Thursday May 17, 2012.

Administrators are moving forward with plans to add another engineer to the city's current lineup of four full-time engineers and two engineering technicians.

Jake Serd of the band DEGRADE THE SIGNAL and the Danville, Illinois radio station 94.9 K-Rock recently conducted an interview with former SOIL and current DIRGE WITHIN guitarist Shaun Glass .

House Speaker Michael Madigan's plan to redirect more than a billion dollars to teacher pension costs rather than to local governments will be opposed by downstate and suburban lawmakers, predicted state Rep.

Two men are in custody Tuesday, awaiting arraignment on felony charges in connection with the armed robbery of a Danville business on Monday.

Christian Cunningham's "voice" boomed through the streets of downtown Danville on Friday night as the local teenager and city's newest celebrity sang at a rally that drew hundreds of people to Temple Plaza's outdoor stage.

Jake Serd of the band DEGRADE THE SIGNAL and the Danville, Illinois radio station 94.9 K-Rock recently conducted an interview with Alexis Brown of the Knoxville, Tennessee-based female-fronted metal/hardcore act STRAIGHT LINE STITCH .