Empire St., Bloomington, closed in 2015 after 22 years in business when owners Abe and Ruth Taha (Abe is pictu… Shannon's ...

From the city to the suburbs, Juneteenth celebrations are happening all across Chicagoland. In the western suburbs, Governor ...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Nearly a year after Belleville city leaders agreed to lease 25 acres of timber behind a Mount Hope cemetery for a solar farm, an online petition is calling for the project to ...

The artwork aims to represent Lincoln's time as a circuit lawyer in central Illinois. The East Peoria City Council meeting on Tuesday unveiled a new bust of Abraham Lincoln that will grace East ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections has recommended that the women's prison, which employs 450 people and has an incarcerated population of just over 1,000, relocate from Lincoln to a new ...

David Davis: Abraham Lincoln’s Favorite Judge will be out next month from the University of Illinois Press. In the face of personal relationships with Lincoln and other attorneys on the circuit he ...

Maria Dryfhout/Shutterstock.com At 982 acres, Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery is one of the largest final resting places in the United States. Located approximately 50 miles southwest of Chicago in ...