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DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — The City of Decatur has provided information on road closures, parking rules and more ahead of the Hardy’s Race for the Lake event this weekend. The event, which takes place ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - There is a lot of work that goes into turning water from Lake Decatur into a drinkable condition in your sink. In simple terms, water is pumped from Lake Decatur into a water ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — Lake Decatur’s water level is continuing to drop, and the City of Decatur is now implementing stricter water rationing measures. Central Illinois has seen below-average rainfall ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — Sean Bowsher and Nikki Harnack joined WCIA’s Mitchell Rife to talk about the upcoming Hardy’s Race for the Lake event. Hardy’s Race for the Lake will take place from June 7-8 at ...

DECATUR — The city of Decatur is advising Lake Decatur dock owners to check and adjust their docks and boat hoists as necessary due to the lake level gradually decreasing as a result of below normal ...

It's been two years since a piece of the Decatur 9/11 memorial went missing. The Decatur Park District believed it had been thrown in Lake Decatur, but they were never ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — Another round of Council Connections was held on Monday in Decatur. Concerned citizens shared their thoughts with city leaders on the effects of CO2, storage and Lake Decatur.

Hardy's Race for the Lake, so named because Dan Hardy provided the grant funding to bring boat racing back to Decatur last year, draws racers from all over the United States and Canada to compete.

In 2024, teenagers vandalized Decatur’s September 11th Memorial and stole an artifact that was recovered from Ground Zero, ...

DECATUR — The continued drought conditions have prompted the city of Decatur to issue a Stage 1 Water Rationing mandate. When they marked the official start of Lake Decatur dredging last October, city ...