NORMAL – The Illinois State men’s basketball team is hoping to end the 2025-26 season on a good note. After losing to Northern Iowa in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament quarterfinals, the ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by the Illinois Times and is republished with permission. SPRINGFIELD — When Illinois Times last wrote about environmental engineer Michael Keebler ...

SPRINGFIELD — Approximately a quarter-million more Illinoisans with a disability are now eligible for savings accounts that allow them to save and invest money to improve their quality of life without ...

PAXTON — Paxton Police Chief Coy Cornett is looking for another fulltime officer to add to his roster of eight. Cornett said he received the go-ahead during a closed session to conclude the city ...

PAXTON — The once-proud A.J. Laurence building in downtown Paxton, long ago bustling with activity, remains vacant today — just as it has for, well, every day this century, it seems. Signs of its ...

SPRINGFIELD — A bill that would prevent streaming services from running commercials at a higher volume than the shows and movies people are watching passed through the Senate Energy and Public ...

BLOOMINGTON — The Illinois Farm Bureau, in partnership with county Farm Bureaus, has awarded 30 grants totaling $120,000 through its Rural Development Grant Program to support local projects across ...

PAXTON — More than midway through its 23-year life span, Paxton’s first tax-increment financing district achieved a long-awaited milestone in fiscal year 2025, finally eclipsing the $1 million mark in ...

URBANA — Military action in Iran continues to impact fuel and fertilizer markets, prompting a nationwide “groundswell of concern from farmers” as planting season nears. “History teaches us that energy ...

A.J. Laurence was born as Lars August Johansson in Gränna, Sweden, in 1849 to Johan Nilsson Malm and Johanna Larsdotter. He came to the U.S. in 1869 with his two sisters — Louise and Sophia. He farmed ...

Many a night I spent with my grandparents in the 1980s, either at the north end or south end of Church Street in Gibson City, depending on whether at the Peters or Orr home. I studied the unique ...

PAXTON — Felony charges of attempted criminal sexual assault of a minor and grooming have been filed in Ford County Circuit Court against Paul L. Meuser, a former Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School ...