Feb. 15, Hancock County Historical Society quarterly meeting will host Reg Ankrum, a resident of Quincy, speaking on “The Statehood of Illinois and County Formation.” He is a ...

University of Chicago researchers recently released a resident-drawn neighborhood map of Chicago that some North Siders say ...

Eula said he wants to let people know the schoolhouse was there in the 19th century. Eula said there will be no cost to ...

A 'village where time stood still' sits just on the Illinois side of the Mississippi river and offers plenty of historical ...

Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored Convention of 1853, where men and women from across the country worked to ...

The emeritus history professor and dean from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is now a board member for the ...

President Trump named voter identification laws as a requirement for California before he would release disaster relief to ...

County maps (those that represent the county as a whole rather than focussing on specific areas) present an overview of the wider context in which local settlements and communities developed. Although ...

Robert Weathersby, 42, of Calumet City, Illinois, was arrested after investigators determined he orchestrated a scheme to redirect a law firm's payment intended for a known business associate, ...

ILLINOIS – The movement among Illinois counties to separate from Chicago and Cook County to form a new state continues to grow. Those for separating point to things like high taxes and a ...

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