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Driver and worker safety, especially in work zones, means more than a week in April, for the Illinois Department of Transportation and Mid-West Truckers Association.

“We have a ton of stuff packed into two days.” That’s the succinct description of the 2024 Mid-West Truck and Trailer Show, scheduled for Feb. 2-3 at the Peoria Civic Center, 201 SW Jefferson Ave., Peoria.

Advocates for sending Ukraine a fresh round of U.S. aid for its war against Russia have begun making adjustments to their advocacy strategy as the issue runs up against growing apathy for the cause among Republicans and their base.

And the Supreme Court sounds open to one gun restriction.

Five people died from exposure to a chemical that spilled after a semitruck overturned in central Illinois, according to autopsies. Effingham County

A federal transportation official says a fatal tanker truck crash in central Illinois that released a deadly chemical may have started when another vehicle tried to pass the truck on

Five people who were killed in a central Illinois crash involving a semitruck carrying anhydrous ammonia died from exposure to the caustic chemical, according to preliminary autopsies

Effingham County Coroner Kim Rhodes said official results from the autopsies won't be available for several weeks.

Preliminary autopsies show that five people killed in a multi-vehicle crash in central Illinois last week died from exposure to a caustic chemical.

Authorities resumed their investigation of a central Illinois truck crash that killed five people, injured five others and prompted an evacuation for