SHAWNEETOWN, Ill. (WSIL)--- A meeting over a controversial proposed state Senate bill took place in the eastern part of Gallatin County on Friday, March 1. Senate Bill 3654 would give the Shawneetown ...

SHAWNEETOWN, Ill. (WSIL) -- Eighty-two year old Arthur Heath stepped out of his pickup truck to meet a friend outside Shawnee Quik Mart, a convenience store and the only gas station in town. Down the ...

OLD SHAWNEETOWN, Ill. (KFVS) - Ameren Illinois installed a mobile substation on higher ground to help keep the lights on in Old Shawneetown. The Ohio River continues to rise near Old Shawneetown, ...

SHAWNEETOWN, Ill. (KFVS) - A southern Illinois convenience store sold a winning lotto ticket worth $800,000. According to the Illinois lottery, the Lucky Day Lotto jackpot ticket was sold at Shawnee ...

Long before it was washed away by Ohio River floodwaters, there was a metal grate in the floor of the first bank building in Illinois. Really just a log house in Old Shawneetown, owner John Marshall, ...

OLD SHAWNEETOWN - As Illinois' oldest municipality, Old Shawneetown has un-doubtedly weathered more than its share of flooding during the last 213 years.

A photograph purportedly showing a sign reading "All Republicans Welcome -- N****r voting Democrats Not So Much!!!!" was posted to social media in September 2018 along with claims that the picture was ...

Shawneetown Distillery will open by the spring of 2016 in the former Pulitis Ristorante at 324 Market St. in New Cumberland. It will produce moonshine, brandy, whiskey and bourbon with a tasting room ...