The Decatur Police Department's 2026 National Night Out celebration is set to return next month.  The event will take place at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, at Dansby Park, formerly Oak Grove Park. National ...

Dreams don’t have to be expensive, though modern life often tries to convince us otherwise. Decatur, Illinois is where ...

The Decatur City Council once again added more streets to its 2026 paving list at midyear of the budget cycle but not as many ...

Update: 9 p.m. As of Wednesday evening, thousands of Ameren Illinois customers are without power. Some of the larges outages include: Update at 7:44 p.m. CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — 3,911 Ameren ...

Two tornadoes have been confirmed in central Illinois by the National Weather Service. One tornado was confirmed near ...

Multiple rounds of severe weather hit Central Illinois on Wednesday, with tornadoes, hail and flooding leaving damage for communities to clean up on Thursday. Follow along ...

UPDATED (3:45 p.m.) — Officials from Ameren Illinois said while they got a “good jump” on the storms that hit the area over the past two days, some should expect this to be a multi-day event. Ameren ...

A nonprofit housing organization's Decatur location has announced it is officially ceasing operations after nearly four decades of service. He was fooling around on the edge - then his hand suddenly ...

Video released by Illinois State Police shows a suspect pointing a crossbow at Decatur officers before a shooting during an April encounter. Body camera footage shows a suspect pointing a crossbow at ...