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For the tenth year Palos Heights police officers staged a rooftop stakeout at Dunkin' Donuts to raise funds for Special Olympics Illinois.A The "Cop on Top" fundraising effort is occuring across the state and last year brought in $215,000 for the cause.

A joint venture of OSF St. Joseph Medical Center and Advocate BroMenn Medical Center that opened in 1999, the cancer center serves more than 220 patients a day and is expected to continue serving more, its officials say.

SENECA AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY Seneca American Legion Auxiliary members met May 15.

The new store will be located on Greenbriar Drive in Normal at the former site of Borders Bookstore.

The McLean County Board appointed the first people to ever serve on its ethics commission last week, nearly eight years after they created the state-mandated commission.

Whether we like it or not, technology is all around us. On our phones, in our homes and even in our cars.

You have to keep kids on their toes these days, and that's the whole idea behind a new fundraising event Sunday at the David Davis Mansion State Historic Site in Bloomington.

The McLean County AIDS Task Force wants people to know it is still in business... Just in a different location.

Months of speculation are over. We now know who the Republican candidate is for Illinois 13th congressional district.

Advocate Eureka Hospital in Eureka and Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in Normal are two of 33 health care facilities in six states that recently won recognition from the American Society for Healthcare Engineering of the American Hospital Association for cutting their energy consumption by 10 percent or more - an accomplishment that not only helps ... (more)

NORMAL, Ill. - After an unusually high number of student deaths this past school year, administrators at Illinois State University in downstate Normal are taking another look at their policies.

NORMAL, Ill. -- For a group of students at Heartland Community College what started as a class project has now turned into a way to educate thousands of area kids.

Two Twin City residents are facing drug charges after police say they seized crack cocaine during a drug investigation.

A man who claims he was seriously injured after being attacked by geese while working in central Illinois has filed a lawsuit.

The Senate Higher Education Committee will consider Tuesday a proposal to bar publicly funded universities from using tax or tuition money to pay for outside firms to hire executives, such as coaches and top administrators.

Colorado's second Steak 'n Shake has opened at 3502 River Point Parkway in the River Point development in Sheridan.

NORMAL, Ill. -- Tonight on You Gotta Eat, it's a trip off to the twin cities for an outdoor lunch.

Some Illinois lawmakers want public universities to stop paying to hire top leaders.

Samuel and Julia Slaight of Ohio, Ill., are announcing the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Shannon Marie Slaight of Normal, to Derek Alan Brown of Normal, the son of Larry and Kim Brown of Pekin.

"It's very colorful," said Uptown Development Director Wayne Aldrich. "There's no public access to the roof but it will be visible from the fourth-floor council chambers." The roof treatment could earn extra points toward Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification, but that wasn't the impetus for doing it.