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

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

A El Paso woman was killed Monday morning in a two-vehicle crash along Illinois Route 251 south of Kappa. Donna Guenther, 62, was pronounced dead at the scene by Woodford County Coroner Tim ...

While a storm system moving through the area this weekend will bring some freezing drizzle to the area on Saturday, the systems that follow will stand a better chance of bringing accumulating snow to ...

Britain is trying to counter French claims that it is an “El Dorado” for migrants by mounting a blitz on illegal foreign workers. Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, revealed on Monday that a ...

At an open-cast mine, Abdullahi Ibrahim Danjija carefully chisels away at a hunk of whitish rock before stuffing a sack with the pieces which break off the walls. In the course of a day’s work ...

Central Illinois Credit Union is requesting that the outlined parcel at 2065 County Road 525 East in Mahomet be rezoned General Commercial so that a new bank can be built on the land. Central ...

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 ...

(WAND) - Conditions will turn icy across Central Illinois today. Light freezing drizzle will develop this morning across our southern hometowns. It'll build into freezing rain as it moves ...

Public schools in Illinois are administered and funded on all levels: local, state, and federal. Superintendent Mark Jontry, who oversees schools in McLean, Livingston, Logan, and DeWitt Counties ...

The debate follows November elections where many rural counties in southern and central parts of Illinois voted to explore seceding from the state. The Illinois attorney general has previously ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D ... “The State’s Personnel Code, administered by the Department of Central Management Services (CMS) and by you as its Director, requires the rejection of ...