A Decatur woman recently received the Purple Heart earned by her late father, WWII Marine Delbert Tuttle, as part of an ...

A few years ago, Peckham’s cousin in Urbana surprised her with some of her father’s old military photos and records that she ...

Democrat Kamala Harris conceded the election but urged her supporters to keep fighting for America’s promise following her ...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 ...

One of the more notorious lies occurred in 1908 in another Springfield, this one in Illinois. As a historian ... He supposedly dragged a 21-year-old white woman by her throat into the backyard ...

METROPOLIS, IL (WSIL ... Winning photos will be displayed in Rep. Windhorst’s Harrisburg and West Frankfort District Offices and his Springfield Capitol office. Winning contestants will ...

The man standing at the door to the second-hand goods store seemed confused. Like me, he was apparently surprised the store was empty; unlike me, he couldn’t read the sign saying the store was closed ...

The ruling increases the likelihood that the conservative-majority Supreme Court will one day consider whether the Second ...

History enthusiasts will have the opportunity to see an original edition of the Gettysburg Address in Springfield beginning ...

Abbot’s decision to spend taxpayer dollars on a chaotic and uncompassionate busing program, it is true that the influx of migrants to Illinois ... t agree more. In Springfield, we have enacted ...