The McHenry County Historical Society and Museum in Union has introduced a new interactive way to explore the history of ...

This past school year, for the first time, Illinois schools were required to teach a unit on the experience and history of ...

Libraries throughout Central Illinois offer summer reading programs. Check out the fun and educational events they are ...

I have always been fascinated with history and how life was in earlier times in County, Illinois. When I’m hunting mushrooms in the woods and run across iris growing, I know there must have been a ...

THURSDAY’s ANSWER: Gov. JB Pritzker made the first large contribution to jumpstart the Better Government Association’s ...

Smitty’s Bar & Grill in Leonore, Illinois, might look like just another roadside tavern with its bright pink awning and neon ...

The R&B world lost two more notable names across the past week when former Kool & the ... Following his singing career he served as a Commissioner for Cook County, Illinois from 1985-through 2018.

Steelton. It’s there in the local high school’s mascot: the Steamrollers, or Rollers. And it’s there in those massive buildings along the Susquehanna River where steel has been made for nearly 160 ...

Proposed new Illinois state Senate boundaries have reshaped the 36th District now represented by Sen. Mike Jacobs, D-East Moline.

Customer Appreciation Day returns to downtown New Bethlehem tomorrow (Friday), with a number of prizes up for grabs along ...

U.S. Reps. Nikki Budzinski and Raja Krishnamoorthi, and state Sen. Laura Fine, say their names were found among alleged Minnesota shooter Vance Boelter’s items.