But, in 2021, DeFord notified everyone it would be the final year of the Redneck Fishing Tournament. An ongoing battle with ...

Tom IrwinTom Irwin, a sixth-generation Sangamon County resident, has played his songs and music for nearly 40 years in the central Illinois area with occasional forays across the country. He's ...

For more information on Illinois Beach State Park, go to https://dnr.illinois.gov and search for the link to the park.

John Ridley, director of public health for Sangamon and Menard Counties, introduced Community Mental Health Boards, or 708 ...

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University of Illinois Springfield has pivoted from plans to open its new “Innovation Center” in a three-story building downtown and now will rent space for the center three blocks east, on half of ...

Preserving Black history Allen Chapel in Lincoln is on Landmarks Illinois’ most endangered list ...

When Theatre in the Park began in 1976, it was known as The Great American People Show, a nonprofit theater company focused ...

When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

The COVID-19 pandemic did great damage to many of the longtime businesses that were still open on Route 66, with hundreds quickly closing. And while many portions of the road are no longer drivable ...

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"A good but imprecise rule of thumb is regional schools are the state universities with either a direction or a city in their name," she said. In Illinois, University of Illinois campuses in Champaign ...