PEORIA – Greater Peoria Honor Flight is dedicated to providing veterans from Central Illinois with an unforgettable day of honor in Washington, D.C., to visit service memorials. Operation Penguin, ...

Two people died Sunday following a domestic incident near Yorktown mall in Lombard. Police said a homicide occurred during the overnight hours Sunday in a residential building in the Yorktown area.

The planning and preparations for reconstructing Illinois Route 47 are done, now all that’s left is two years of construction. Last week officials from the City of Woodstock, the Woodstock Chamber of ...

Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, the heart of the city’s Mexican-American community, is getting its third Quality of Life Plan — and this time, the nonprofits that steered its development are ...

A project more than a decade in the making has come to fruition. Hollywood Casino Aurora is now open, putting smiles on the faces of leaders from PENN Entertainment, owners of the property, and the ...

CHICAGO — Attorneys for the now-cleared “Broadview Six” protesters are asking a federal judge to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate alleged misconduct by those in Chicago’s U.S. attorney’s ...

The band is back together, and that should be sweet music to diners’ ears. Chefs who made a name for themselves in the Chicago area have teamed up to provide food offerings to visitors to the new ...

The Republican primary field for the Illinois 11 th Congressional District has doubled with the addition of two new candidates vying for the opportunity to go against incumbent Democrat Bill Foster.

Ashwin Shah, who immigrated to America 49 years ago, has celebrated the holidays for decades. These holidays, he said, are special for him and his wife, Ina, warmed by the happy resolution of a ...

Howard Nathan, arguably Peoria’s greatest basketball player, died Sunday, less than three weeks after he was rushed to OSF St. Francis Medical Center for heart failure. In 1991, Nathan was a senior at ...

The Addison Township Board voted Wednesday to sue former Supervisor Dennis Reboletti and three other former officials for allegedly misappropriating more than $78,000 in funds, and using part of it to ...

American restaurants, bars, and entertainment venues are adding indoor and outdoor bocce courts at a feverish pace. Both young and older adults – men and women – are joining social and corporate bocce ...