PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

Lincoln Land Community College's Jacksonville campus honored its namesake president's 216th birthday Thursday with a ...

Life Courses in the Context of Three Generations. The LifE 3G study is one of the few international longitudinal three-generation studies with an observation period of more than f ...

BUZZ MAGAZINE This season has brought the usual snow and cold weather to much of Illinois. It’s nothing compared to the Year of the Deep Snow.That ...

Frank McWorter was known for his mining skills and eventually earned enough money to buy himself and his wife out of slavery.

Frank McWorter was known for his mining skills and eventually earned enough money to buy himself and his wife out of slavery.

Malcolm X (Malik Shabazz) was grounded in African American folklore. He was fond of animal metaphors. His most famous analogy was the fox and wolf. Malik saw the fox as ...

What’s behind the media and pop culture’s longstanding fascination with Mormon violence? And how often do they get the story ...

Enough people are noticing in Illinois that some counties want to secede from the Land of Lincoln and join a state that isn’t ruled by public unions and their political yes-men. In November ...

You’ve probably heard the whispers at some point: Illinois might be the best team in the Big Ten. The Illini are dark-horse Final Four contenders. If this team comes together, there's no telling ...

More than 400 GameStop locations were shuttered in the first month of the year, according to data compiled online.

Netflix's miniseries "American Primeval" dismantles the romantic myth of the West, painting a raw picture of violence, ...