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The Mattoon City Council approved an engineering agreement for widening Swords Drive at Illinois 16 to add more turning lanes ...

There were more than 100 reports of severe weather from Oklahoma into Pennsylvania as of Wednesday as severe weather tore ...

Historian and journalist Clay Risen in his new book, “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America” ...

Lincoln scholar Wayne 'Doc' Temple studied under James G. Randall at the University of Illinois. Temple worked for more than five decades as the state's deputy chief archivist. Wayne C. "Doc ...

Telling history is making choices: which stories, which individuals, which details? DEI is part of the selection process.

The Central Illinois Land Bank Authority has finished renovations on three more "Abandonment to Rehab" projects in Decatur.

The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from ...

There's a property that used to be owned by the state of Illinois somewhere in town. It's been shuttered for years and fallen into disrepair. Many have tried to turn it into something else, to no ...

The James Beard Foundation announced Wednesday the finalists vying for its coveted awards, and among them are five Chicago ...

Find the wayside sign about Lincoln's Taylorville on West Market Street near South ... Offering a little bit of everything, ...

Happy Monday, Illinois. It’s down to the wire for municipal elections — and that suburb we call Wisconsin. “I can just tell you that in history, not since Rasputin has there been someone who ...