Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — 217 years later, Central Illinois is remembering President Abraham Lincoln on his birthday. According to a ...

A Lockport resident’s role in bringing about societal reform in the United States is getting a public boost thanks to the efforts of a New Lenox researcher. In the years leading up to the Civil War, ...

Tuesday night’s first major televised 2026 governor’s race debate wasn’t halfway over when its newest entrant — San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan — came under a second attack from a rival on stage. “He just ...

Holly Andreatta’s fellow Lincoln City Council members opted not to censure her Tuesday night after a lengthy public debate surrounding the polarizing comments she made at a conservative high school ...

In Freeport, Illinois, just beyond the somnolent downtown, a small park near the Pecatonica River is wedged next to the public library. In the mid-19th century, however, land along the shore stretched ...

The Glacier High School speech and debate team secured second place, and Flathead High School third, in Bozeman over the weekend. Glacier scored 156 points overall to Bozeman’s 294 at the Friday and ...

A school board meeting in Placer County became the latest battleground in the national culture war surrounding slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk as hundreds of students and parents packed a ...

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are denying rumors that they're boycotting CNN. Conservative pundit Scott Jennings debated the couple's son, Dylan Douglas, on NewsNight last month. Jennings ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The members of the Douglas County school board’s conservative majority ended their terms Tuesday night much as they began: by embracing the education culture ...

Hinsdale Central High School is the only school in Illinois to be recognized by the National Speech & Debate Association as one of the top 100 schools in the country for having the largest number of ...

A man carries a sign while dressed as George Washington during a No Kings Day rally at Lincoln-Douglas Square on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. The Alton event was one of more than a thousand happening ...