The Pontiac Public Library is hosting the month-long exhibition with special events scheduled for Feb. 11 and 22.

Jackie White, a native of Centralia, Illinois, in 1968 became the first Black person to officiate an NBA game.

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...

Leonard was soon married to Revetta Sloan, and the couple took up lodgings in a white ... The black artists came from Mississippi, from Arkansas, up the Illinois central railroad from Memphis ...

You may report armadillo sightings from the northern part of Illinois. BIG NUMBER 17: Minutes it took to end the sturgeon season (quota of six sturgeon) on Feb. 1 on Black Lake in northern Michigan.

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

One was a significant conductor of the city’s Underground Railroad. The other was a pioneering Black physician and advocate ...

Dr. Harold J. Eigenbrodt was the head of North Central College’s Zoology Department, and later of the Biology Department, from the late 1920s to 1958.

Enough people are noticing in Illinois that some counties want to secede from the Land of Lincoln and join a state that isn’t ruled by public unions and their political yes-men. In November ...

There’s so much rich history in Central New York, and the month of February is the perfect time to take a look back at some ...