july 23
- Havana High School's Halicyn Minor wins Courage Award
- Rochester's Grace Petty: Large School Volleyball Player of the Year
- SJ-R Small School Volleyball Player of the Year: Plains' Maya Phillips
- State Journal-Register's Coach of the Year: Rochester's Kallie Sinkus
- E.L. Pruitt celebrates 50 years of contract work in Springfield
- Fans mark 'Hot Dog Week' with Portillo's 'pup-parazzi' giveaway
- Notable events on this day in history
- Carlinville man faces five counts of possession of child pornography
- Deadly doses of fentanyl showing up in counterfeit drugs in state
- Virden man dies after a two-vehicle accident Thursday night
- Pritzker: 99% of those dying from COVID-19 in Illinois unvaccinated
- Rivian seeks second assembly plant as it closes another $2.5B funding round