New research reveals that corn fields cover more of Illinois than every U.S. state except one. BrilliantMaps.com recently published a map showing the “percentage of each state occupied by corn ...

Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists ...

Carver Arena at the Peoria Civic Center currently has nothing scheduled until a Foreigner and Loverboy on Sept. 25, making ...

Illinois leads, with Chicago being the most frequent host city, welcoming the DNC a record 12 times as of 2024. Maryland follows with nine conventions in the state over the years – all held in ...

For maps and directions, please visit the WIU-QC website. Macomb does not have an airport that you can fly into directly. We recommend that you use Chicago O'Hare (ORD), Chicago, IL or Quad Cities ...

The weekly drought monitor update has arrived, and as expected our entire area is now in the early stages of a drought.

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The campus of University of Illinois at Chicago in 2020. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share As Illinois students make the trek to college campuses this fall, it is impossible to forget the students who ...

Though it was Fort Wayne of neighboring Indiana that topped the list, two Illinois cities still found their way into the ranking's top 20. Peoria was ranked at No. 16, while Rockford, which was ...

He served about 6½ years in prison. Hodge hailed from downstate Granite City — helping show that Illinois’ corruption is not limited to Chicago. Indeed, the most notorious story of Illinois ...