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

Judge Susan Crawford could have given a convicted child molester more than 100 years in prison. Instead, she gave him a ...

Ankrom's interest in Abraham Lincoln led him to a 10-year study of Stephen Douglas. The results have been two award-winning ...

Nevertheless, Huston noted 33 Illinois counties have voted in the past five years to separate from Chicago and Cook County in the hope of establishing a new state. "We think instead of seceding ...

Hi, I’m Globe reporter Mark Arsenault, sneaking back as a guest writer to offer thoughts on how Patriots fans can approach ...

Indiana looks to add 33 counties from Illinois that voted to leave the state - Republicans are considering the proposal after roughly a third of counties in the Prairie state voted to break away ...

LFI Real Estate is proposing the Gardens of Frankfort project on 64 acres east of La Grange Road and south of Steger Road.

Backed by the powerful corn lobby, Marquis Energy’s push to bury carbon emissions underground has sparked a fierce debate in ...

Rats and mice can carry hantavirus, leptospirosis, and salmonella. This is especially a problem homes that have children as they are more susceptible to serious complications from the diseases that ...

distancing themselves from Cook County. The Illinois Separation Movement is efforting to get more counties and municipalities to weigh in on separation. Indiana has crafted a bill setting up a ...

Within the first week of the new session of Illinois' General Assembly lawmakers on Jan. 13 and 14 filed bills to set their state on a path to becoming the 12th jurisdiction in the United States to ...

Reducing Marquis Energy’s ethanol production would be detrimental to many Illinois farmers, said Betsy Rowland, who farms 8,000 acres of corn and soybeans in Bureau County. “If something were to ...