As the story goes, a desperately poor family contacted The Daily Pantagraph newsroom on Christmas Eve 1927. A reporter took their request in hand, delivering firewood to keep the family warm.
Mothers deserve more than a day every 12 months. Twenty-four hours isn’t enough for such a daunting title with just three letters — Mom.
The Central Illinois community shares the pain of the family of U.S. Army Sgt. Josh Rodgers.
My firm belief is the internet can change the world by making us all realize our similarities are far greater than our differences.
It's been two years since Central Illinois lost the seven men for whom Project 7 is named. Two years of pain and grief. Two years of hope that the next day will be brighter. Two years of memories.
Editor's note: On this day, we want to retell this story, taken from the second chapter of Luke, verses 1-20.
As the story goes, a desperately poor family contacted The Daily Pantagraph newsroom on Christmas Eve 1927. A reporter took their request in hand, delivering firewood to keep the family warm.
Memorial Day is a day to remember the 1.3 million citizens who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country, dying while serving in the armed forces.
No one wants to pay higher taxes. But should taxes be spread across a larger base when the object of the taxation benefits a larger population?
We need to think about safety on our roads more than we do.
Using the dysfunction in Springfield as an excuse for funding messes is such an easy target, the complaints can begin to feel like arrows puncturing the broad side of a barn.
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DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines will let unvaccinated employees keep working past early December instead of putting them on unpaid leave if they apply for an exemption on medical or religious grounds.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said Tuesday that 21 officers have been placed on “no pay status” for refusing to comply with the city's order to disclose their COVID-19 vaccination status.
A three-judge federal court panel in Chicago ruled Tuesday that the legislative redistricting plan that Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law in June was unconstitutional.
Family and friends of Jelani Day gathered in Danville for a graveside service, but his mother said the fight to find out what happened to her son is not over.
Aaron M. Parlier, 40, was charged in 2018 with 38 felony counts of sexual assault of a minor and child pornography.
Aaron Parlier, 40, is charged in this trial with 10 counts of producing child pornography and 10 counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a minor less than 13 years of age.
Police are searching for two suspects and a vehicle believed to be involved in several McLean County burglaries over the weekend.
A three-judge federal court panel in Chicago ruled Tuesday that the legislative redistricting plan that Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law in June was unconstitutional.
An updated playground designed with accessibility in mind is scheduled to be ready by the start of the next school year.
“We want to make sure that these numbers keep going down,“” he said.
The fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald seven years ago is looming large over Chicago's former mayor as he looks to win confirmation as President Joe Biden's ambassador to Japan.