The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...

SPRINGFIELD More than 7,000 students will visit Illinois state parks, natural areas, museums and other natural resources ...

The "Race Day" tornadoes of May 30, 2004, were a significant and destructive series of tornadoes that struck the state of Indiana in the United States. The event is often remembered due to the timing ...

The Mid-Illini Conference named its top athletes for 2024-25 in basketball and wrestling. Here's the full list.

A placard memorializes the purported burial place of Legins-Costley in South Peoria while a recently unveiled monument honors her and her son, William Henry Costley, in a park in downtown Pekin.

Kenwood moves back to No. 1 after eliminating Nazareth and Young en route to their first trip to state. Glenbard West, ...

ALTON — Pekin's historic run to the Sweet 16 ended ... had their nine-game win streak snapped by the No. 3-ranked Cissna Park co-op (29-5), which advances to face Decatur St. Teresa in an ...

With Kenwood stiil entrenched at No. 1, DePaul Prep and Marist climb withing the Top 3; Rock Island and West Aurora earn a place in the Top 25 DePaul Prep is back up to No. 2 in this week's Top 25 ...

Gary Robert Planck, J.D., 86, of Winter Park, Florida, passed away on Saturday, March 8, 2025. He was born in Pekin, Illinois, on February 11, 1939 and graduated from Pekin Community High School in ...

Betty Boehm of Pekin, Illinois passed away peacefully on February 19 ... Her grandchildren are Mary (Boehm) Taneyhill and her husband Chris of Severna Park, Maryland; Sarah (Boehm) Hammett and her ...

The meeting is Thursday, May 2, 10-11:30 a.m., 325 Karen’s Court, Pekin Shelter Housein Pekin Park. The project focuses on a mural for the community shelter house with a creative design from the IU ...

Tinley Park Andrew led at the end of the opening day ... and to Jessa Donaldson of Pekin 20-17 in sudden death overtime, and was eliminated. CM's two wrestlers, Kendall Moss-Smith at 115 pounds ...