The city of Lincoln signed a contract Tuesday morning to purchase a former bank building which will house a new Route 66 ...

Kevin Faulconer was appointed as its new President and CEO to "champion pro-jobs policies that lower costs and create more ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of ...

Ottawa, Illinois, was in a dispiriting descent in 1999. But Mayor Robert Eschbach saw hope and opportunity.

Former Lincoln mayor Dan Karleskint, known for his professionalism and kindness, passed away at 83.

Karleskint was elected to the city council in 2016 and served as Lincoln's mayor in 2020 and 2024, before retiring.

Rochelle Hartman is no longer director of the Lincoln Library. According to a statement Friday from Springfield Mayor Jim Langfelder, he asked for Hartman's resignation Thursday. The mayor cited ...

The only town named for Abraham Lincoln before he became president faces another economic blow if the state follows through on plans to locate a women’s prison.

Illinois state Rep. Wayne Rosenthal, R-Morrisonville, discusses the collapse of a portion of a barn that is part of the reconstructed village of New Salem, where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Former Lincoln mayor and state senator Don Wesely has died. Wesely served in the Nebraska legislature for 20 years before being elected Lincoln's 49th mayor.