This past school year, for the first time, Illinois schools were required to teach a unit on the experience and history of ...

New Buffalo Township is the bucolic extension from the lakeshore city of New Buffalo, a common summer vacation spot for Chicagoans. It’s a tourist town, chock-full of marina-side restaurants ...

Gather your camping chairs, sunblock and cold drinks, because the north suburbs have plenty of fun planned for the Fourth of July holiday. You can register now for various 5K races, plan to march ...

At least five people were taken to a hospital when a small skydiving aircraft went off the end of a runway at an airport in ...

With local organizations’ support this time around, a less-dense development project may be coming to what is currently rural ...

The founders of Emporia, Nebraska in Holt County had great hopes for this platted town to become the scene of commerce.

I have always been fascinated with history and how life was in earlier times in County, Illinois. When I’m hunting mushrooms in the woods and run across iris growing, I know there must have been a ...

A deadly, record-setting heat wave was continuing to blast most of the eastern U.S. on Tuesday, June 24, forecasters said, with temperatures soaring to near 100 degrees for tens of millions of people.

Use our handy guide to determine which neighborhood school your Palatine student should attend based on attendance boundaries ...

The Montreal River forms part of the border between Michigan and Wisconsin, creating beautiful waterfalls as it descends ...

Tucked away in east-central Illinois along Interstate 70, Casey (rhymes with “racy”) sits almost exactly halfway between St. Louis and Indianapolis, making it the perfect unexpected detour on a ...