Carbondale is cleaning up its downtown this month with help from local students. With Earth Day two weeks away, the city’s Shade Tree Commission plans to clean up a heavily traveled trail off ...

Work to restore Carbondale’s Pioneer City Station continues to chug along. The city’s roughly 30-year-old train station at Trinity Place and Mill Street is in the midst of a $25,000 facelift through a ...

These are photos taken by John Badman that have appeared on the pages of The Telegraph, or online this week.

A mix of empty businesses and city buildings can be seen along Walnut Street March 19, 2205 in downtown Carbondale, Illinois. (Julia Rendleman for ProPublica) Julia Rendleman Julia Redleman for ...

Work to restore Carbondale’s Pioneer City Station continues ... “Theirs is a focal piece in their downtown, which I’ve always thought was gorgeous.” The city wouldn’t have been able ...

Governor JB Pritzker, alongside the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) and local leaders, ...

JACKSONVILLE Governor JB Pritzker joined the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) and local ...

A helicopter crash in Hartford, Illinois, injured three people and caused a fire, with a strong fuel smell lingering downtown ...

A mix of empty businesses and city buildings can be seen along Walnut Street March 19, 2205 in downtown Carbondale, Illinois. (Julia Rendleman for ProPublica) Jeff Vaughn, a retired police officer ...

Helloooo!!! Is anybody home??? It’s that time of year when we find ourselves all alone. Literally, once the lifts closed and ...

There’s an independent shop in Edwardsville, Afterwards Books, but the nearest one south of Belleville is 80 miles away in Carbondale. “Southern Illinois has been called a book desert because ...

He answered the phone on the first ring. “Kellllyy, what can I do for youuu?” I had a request, but it was tabled for a minute ...