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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story is worth telling. Many downstate Illinois residents dislike Chicago’s strong influence in the state. Last year, a total of 33 counties voted to secede from Illinois and form their own state.

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 ...

February 12, 2025 - December 10, 2025 This year we have a fantastic variety of topics being presented by The University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners and Educators along with Educators and ...

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 ...

The Republican leader of the Illinois House and five Illinois voters have filed a lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to throw out the legislative district map drawn in 2021 SPRINGFIELD, Ill.

It's no secret that parts of Illinois gets a lot of snow, but there are five counties and one county in particular in the Land of Lincoln that have just been ranked among the top areas in America for ...