Votes are being tallied in the Illinois flag contest, but the current flag has its fans and lawmakers could decide to keep it ...

Brice Williams made jumper to seal the Nebraska Cornhuskers' 80-74 win over the Illinois Fighting Illini. Posted: January 31, ...

The Illinois State Flag ... rid of this boring “seal on a bedsheet” design. The Centennial Flag, created in 1918 to commemorate a century of Illinois statehood. A white star on a blue stripe ...

Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored Convention of 1853, where men and women from across the country worked to ...

Illinois, ready to choose a state flag ... blue vertical bars on each end (with a narrow white stripe in between the colors) eliminates the ‘seal-on-bedsheet’ look. Not overly imaginative ...

He thought he’d make millions of dollars selling solar panels door-to-door. The reality was much darker. Aaron Colvin was ...

He’s the best son you could ever imagine,” the suspect’s father said after a hearing in Madison County Circuit Court.

The flight data and voice recorders, known as black boxes, have been recovered after the midair collision of a passenger jet and an Army helicopter in the Washington, DC, area, the National ...

President Donald Trump’s new administration looked ahead to key Senate hearings this week for three of his most controversial ...

Both Franklin and Freeman are mixed race; Franklin’s mother is white, and Freeman’s mom is Korean. Sean Frazier, the athletic director at Northern Illinois ... Black. He played at Ohio State ...