The head of the Lee County Board of Supervisors is defending the hiring of a consulting firm for an upcoming project.
The Macomb Public Library is inching closer to the local fundraising goal as part of the plan to build an addition to its Carnegie building.
Western Illinois University administrators unveiled a plan to save $4.5 million in the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2013.
The cost to rent farmland in southeast Iowa has increased substantially in the last five years. The increases have been even higher statewide.
The Illinois Senate has approved an overhaul of the state's pension systems.
