Jacksonville, IL

All winning teams in the area scored at least 40 points. JHS 42-Springfield 7 GNW 40-Carrollton 6 West Central 41-North Greene 7 Calhoun 54-P Hill 0 Beardstown 55-Mendon Unity 16 Dec Mac 62-Lincoln 0 Glenwood 41-Normal U 0 QND 56-Lanphier 0 SHG 63-Southeast 6 Athens 66-Pittsfield 27 Auburn 63-New Berlin 0 Pleasant Plains 49-Maroa Forsyth […]

Two people are headed for prison after they were sentenced late last week on drug charges in Greene County Court.             59-year-old William Howell of Barry was given six years in prison for possession of meth.             It’s a Class 3 felony. Howell admitted to the charge Friday, and was sentenced by Judge Zachary Schmidt. […]

Jacksonville hits the road tonight for high school football, while Routt has pushed its game to tomorrow. JHS will play at Memorial Stadium against Springfield High School. Game time has been moved back to 7:30, and the pregame show starts at 7 on WLDS. The football game will pre-empt Cubs baseball. Routt has moved its […]

The Morgan County sheriff’s department is getting help from Crimestoppers in its investigation of the theft of motorcycles in rural Morgan County. The alleged theft occurred sometime at the end of August, between the 25th and 30th. Deputies say the unknown person or persons entered an unoccupied barn located on Rees Road in rural Franklin. […]

A relative handful of tickets remain for the Routt-Our Saviour Dreams drawing. Forty Five hundred tickets went on sale this summer. The drawing will be held Sunday night at the end of the Family Fun Festival. Chairwoman Becky McClellan says ticket agents have been contacting past ticket buyers and others in an effort to sell […]

The fight over data center regulations in Morgan County is heading toward a critical deadline. The county’s six-month moratorium on new data center applications expires at the end of October, and the Morgan County commissioners are expected to consider a regulatory ordinance next month. That’s happening even though there is currently no formal data center […]

Kim’s Place Cafe in Jacksonville is getting a national spotlight. The locally owned restaurant will be featured on America’s Best Restaurants as part of the company’s national ABR Roadshow. The ABR crew will be at Kim’s Place Cafe on September 15th from 9 a.m. until noon to film an episode highlighting some of the restaurant’s […]

After 27 years of Labor Day weekend programs at Nichols Park, Jacksonville’s Prairieland Chautauqua is changing. This weekend’s event will be the final traditional stage production, but organizers say the Chautauqua itself is not going away. Morgan County Historical Society Vice President Chad Boehlke says beginning next year, Chautauqua will become a speaker series spread […]

Jacksonville is one of 11 stops on a statewide pork tenderloin sandwich crawl happening through the end of November. The State Journal-Register reports The Patio in Jacksonville is participating in the Illinois Pork Tenderloin Crawl, organized by the Illinois Pork Producers Association. The crawl began Tuesday and runs through November 30th, giving diners a chance […]

It was a two weather month in August..one for the first two thirds, and the second for the final third. The first thing that jumps out at you is the rainfall for the month. The total was 5 and 87-hundredths. That’s about 2 and a half inches more than normal. The month included the deluge […]