Sam Montalbano, a well-known community volunteer and former Sangamon County Board member, will be honored Wednesday - Veterans Day -- with dedication of a flag pole in his name outside Little Flower Catholic Church and School.
Twelve Springfield Fire Department personnel, including Chief Allen Reyne, have tested positive for COVID-19.Thirty-seven Springfield firefighters in all are currently quarantined because of the virus.
A Loami woman was killed in a three-vehicle accident on Illinois Route 54, a half mile east of Farmingdale Road in Sangamon County just after after 7 a.m. Monday.
Two dozen railroad cars loaded with coal derailed in Panama in Montgomery County early Sunday morning, according to the Christian-Montgomery Emergency Management Agency.
Six new deaths and several hundred new COVID-19 cases were reported in central Illinois over three days through Monday, prompting alarm bells from public health officials.
