Greg Downey from Monticello, Illinois died of AIDS at home surrounded by his mother's love. She talks about Greg, his sexuality and AIDS diagnosis and her promise to him before he died in 1990.

Students from eight high schools in the Champaign-Urbana area will stage a demonstration Saturday to call for stronger gun control measures. The protest is one of hundreds of similar events happening across the country, including Washington D.C., under the moniker “March For Our Lives.”

The Champaign County village of Savoy has a new village president for the first time since 1989. That's one of many area races decided in Tuesday's Illinois municipal election.

The US Department of Agriculture has awarded the city of Monticello a $14 million loan to build a new wastewater treatment plant. The announcement comes a year after Illinois' Attorney General sued the city over the release of untreated wastewater into streets. 

Monticello School District Supt. Vic Zimmerman says he'll look at renovating the current high school instead of building a new one, after Tuesday's referendum defeat.