PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

Jenn VanBibber is curator of objects and textiles for the Historical Museum based in Edwardsville IL and is helping with a ...

The tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas, for which related cases were first reported in January, has killed two people and caused at least 67 to need treatment for active infections, ...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker took to Instagram last Friday to share what he called a "Special Announcement From Governor JB Pritzker." Standing in front of a podium, Pritzker announced that he was ...

Ankrom's interest in Abraham Lincoln led him to a 10-year study of Stephen Douglas. The results have been two award-winning biographies, and Ankrom is working on the final volume of his three-volume ...

Mudslides are dangerous torrents that are usually referred to by geologists and first responders as debris flows.

A 69-year-old man who killed a 21-year-old woman in 2008 in a drunken boating crash in Wonder Lake was sentenced to a year in jail for a new drunken driving crash in McHenry County. Ricky L. McGuire, ...

MARION, Ill. (WSIL) -- A local historian and author will be sharing the rich history of Southern Illinois. The event will be ...

Is it time to stop changing our clocks twice a year? Here's a state-by-state look at efforts to make daylight saving time ...