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 ...

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 ...

Larry McClellan, a founding professor at Governors State University, has spent decades researching, writing and speaking about the myriad stories of freedom seekers and sites of the Underground ...

(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 ...