Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon ...

Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois is trying to chart a path for national Democrats to counter President Donald Trump CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sits at a table surrounded by ...

Deerfield Public Schools District 109 has responded to a federal Title IX investigation that was launched over allegations of administrators forcing middle school girls to change in the same ...

Ohio State Marion and the Marion Women's Club & Home received an award for their collaborative efforts in engaged scholarship. The partnership allows students to explore the club's extensive ...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights announced on Thursday that it is launching an investigation into the Illinois Department of Education, the Chicago Public School District ...

The Diocese of Springfield in Illinois is arguing in federal court that a state “human rights” law is infringing upon its freedoms of religion and speech as well as the freedoms of a pregnancy ...

Jerry Lee Cooper, 60, was found guilty of murdering his live-in girlfriend, Teresa Gibson, 48. The jury reached a guilty verdict on charges of murder, felonious assault and tampering with evidence ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sits at a table surrounded by University of Illinois researchers who will soon be out of work, their lab set to lose its federal funding and ...

MANNINGTON, W.Va. — The Mannington Middle School building has been added to the 2025 Endangered Properties List from the West Virginia Preservation Alliance of West Virginia Donna Heston Marion ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Reducing stress could be as simple as taking a walk in the woods. The non-profit Brushwood Center in Lake County, Illinois is teaching people about the practice of "forest bathing ...

MESA, Ariz. -- Athletics second baseman Zack Gelof is scheduled for surgery on his right hand Monday and will begin the season on the injured list. Gelof suffered a hamate bone fracture and Dr ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker listens to David Richardson, right, associate vice chancellor for research, during a visit to the Soybean Innovation Lab at University of Illinois, which is impacted by ...