Monticello captain and linebacker won't play Friday in state championship game because of knee injury: 'I just want to be out ...

What’s your favorite Monticello uniform combination? I’m a big purple jersey with white pants fan. It gives you the best ...

Thousands of Syrian insurgents have pushed on with their advances on government-held areas in the country’s northwest. They have reached the outskirts of Syria’s second largest city Aleppo and are ...

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Growing up in Illinois, when it came time for Bret Bielema to pick his favorite baseball team, he listened to his grandfather Rich Bielema. “He was a huge Cubs fan,” Bielema said. “It kind of drove ...

A Gifford man has been sentenced to 24 months of probation for firing a weapon in his home. Benjamin Calhoun, 48, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault due to a 2023 incident in which he apparently ...

"We are hoping that we're not going to have to push that timeline out too far, but it could be up to a year that we're going ...

After a couple weeks of deliberation, the city of Urbana has officially decided to commit up to $800,000 to Angela Bradley's ...

A Danville man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his own brother. Montel C.L. Plummer, 22, was originally charged with three counts of first-degree murder, which were ...

The stories inevitably report more unwelcome news about the financial standing of the five public-pension systems for teachers, state employees, university employees, judges and legislators. They’re ...

After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral has showed its new self to the world Friday. Rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy good-as-new stonework have erased ...

Global shares have mostly fallen after U.S. markets were closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. The yen gained against the U.S. dollar. Chinese shares rose while the rest of the markets ...