Springfield native Bob Waldmire was a gifted artist and cartographer who captured the essence of Route 66 through his ...

Roger Q. Mason’s stage play and film Lavender Men considers Abraham Lincoln's love life and interrogates American mythology.

By the power invested in me by integrationists and abolitionists past and present, I hereby proclaim June 12 as ...

The likeness between the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln and his 11th-generation descendant Ralph C.

High school athletes dream of leading their team to a WPIAL championship. Pete Smith accomplished that goal in not one, but two sports in the same year. The Uniontown graduate was the point guard on ...

Washington actor Pete Ploszek, who's been in "Captain Marvel," "You" and more, discusses his latest movie and maintaining ...

There’s a growing schism in the first American pope’s hometown. At stake is his childhood home. An auction for the house ...

A 26-year-old Davenport man is being held on a $2.6 million bond after police say he shot at a woman and five children in a ...

William McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. There’s a reason Trump is so drawn to his legacy—and so ...

Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until ...