Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon ...

Voters in one of Washington's school districts soon will decide if the city will use $23 million in bonds to build a new elementary school, or instead spend an estimated $19 million to upgrade the ...

The Toronto Blue Jays placed Max Scherzer on the 15-day injured list Sunday, one day after the veteran right-hander lasted ...

The referendum on the ballot reads: “Shall the Board of Education of Washington School District Number 52, Tazewell County, Illinois, build and equip a new Lincoln School Building, alter ...

SEATTLE – Washington softball heads to the Midwest for a matchup against Eastern Illinois on Thursday before returning to conference action for a two-game series at Illinois on Friday and Saturday.

The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe’s leader 175 years ago but ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sits at a table surrounded by University of Illinois researchers who will soon be out of work, ...

The Democrat is expected to announce a run for a third term in the coming weeks. In the meantime, he is devoting much of his ...

Illinois' Washington County sees a tentative property assessment equalization factor change to 0.9666, potentially affecting ...

Coach Heather Tarr and the Washington Huskies saw their next two games canceled on Saturday afternoon, giving them almost a ...

Bonilla, 25, has been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide by intoxication in connection to a crash that killed ...