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 ...

New Jersey has long been known for its “brain drain,” as more than half of its college-bound students head out-of-state for their higher education.

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