G.H. Merritt explains that under the U.S. Constitution, you need approval from both the state legislature and Congress for ...

Geoarchaeologist and geospatial scientist Steven Di Naso, a professor at Eastern Illinois University, presented a plan during Dieterich’s recent village board meeting to digitize records for the ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

The Effingham City Plan Commission Tuesday approved two subdivision plats.

Bloomington High School boys' basketball head coach Micheal Mosley now is the Ward 2 alderman on the City Council.

Ravinia, North America’s longest-running outdoor music festival, has announced a $75 million multi-year renovation of its 36-acre park and venues in Highland Park. The organization said beloved, ...

The foreman of the jury that convicted former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan on 10 counts says the case involved “government overreach” and that the evidence wasn’t as solid as it seemed.

On a night when a legendary Illinois big man was honored for his contributions to the program and a current Illini big man was the driving force in a potentially season-shifting win, it wouldn't ...

Illinois has a Democratic trifecta and a Democratic triplex. The Democratic Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature. As ...

A man is facing felony charges after court documents say he left a voicemail for a woman in Crystal Lake offering to pay $2,000 to have sex with her juvenile daughter. Alexander W. Maegdlin, 29, of ...

County maps (those that represent the county as a whole rather than focussing on specific areas) present an overview of the wider context in which local settlements and communities developed. Although ...

The DuPage County Board voted to remove an ex-Illinois congressman's name from the county’s Wheaton courthouse. A boy from west suburban Aurora got his wish to go to the Super Bowl and recounted ...