Category Archives: State News

The event was canceled due to storms with strong winds predicted to hit the area Friday morning. (WJBC file photo)By WMBD-TVSPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Fair announced Thursday evening that ...

Thursday's Illinois State Fair Twilight Parade. (Dave Dahl/WJBC)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – The statewide FFA leaders served as grand marshals for the Twilight Parade, which closed out the first d...

Thursday's ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. (Dave Dahl/WJBC)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – Thursday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Illinois State Fair mixed ...

Lorilee Schultz, whose family farms in Orangeville, near Freeport, is depicted milking the cow. (Dave Dahl/WJBC)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – The famous butter cow, 2023 edition, has taken her place...

Gov. JB Pritzker. (Dave Dahl/WJBC)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker tried Wednesday to correct an historic wrong by re-naming Springfield’s McFarland Mental Health Center for a wo...

The fair is Aug. 10-20. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Fair is for everyone, says fair manager Rebecca Clark."One in seven individuals live with a disabi...

Paige Van Dyke of Clay County is the 2023 Miss Illinois County Fair Queen. (Dave Dahl/WJBC)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – An experience babysitting a child with a seizure disorder is guiding the path...

Another change: the Governor's Sale of Champions takes place Wednesday the 16th – Governor's Day – as opposed to Ag Day. (WJBC file photo)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – Changes to the cal...

Acting Illinois Department of Natural Resources director Natalie Phelps Finnie. (Dave Dahl/WJBC)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – An invasive fish that’s getting an image makeover is for sale to e...

Illinois Governor Pritzker. (Photo courtesy: Gov. Pritzker) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker's growing national profile is doing little to quell speculation he has his eye on the Whit...