A historic bridge in Alaska named for segregated Black soldiers who battled extreme weather and terrain to help build the first road link between Alaska and Canada needs to replaced.

Welcome to Decatur, Illinois, the financial oasis sitting pretty in the heart of the Prairie State, where $1,400 a month ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson’s career as a civil rights leader and politician took him across the country and around the world, yet he remained close to Illinois.

In the world which most of us live in, bridge builders bring people and places together. Bill Crane is a syndicated columnist based in Decatur. He has worked in politics for Democrats and Republicans, ...

It was close, but in the end the Decatur City Council decided that sinking another $124,877 of taxpayer cash into the proposed Love Learning and Laughter Daycare facility was a bridge too far.

About 40 miles east of Springfield, this central Illinois gem operates like it missed the memo about skyrocketing costs of ...

A Decatur woman who unsuccessfully ran for a City Council seat last year and previously criticized police following the 2023 fatal shooting of Steve Perkins was sentenced last week to ...

The Exoneration Project is working alongside the Illinois Innocence Project (IIP) in an effort to exonerate members of the ...

After years of traffic delays coming into Decatur through Hudson Memorial Bridge, city leaders are taking a big step toward building a new bridge into the city.

Decatur Library set to reopen after shooting inside left 1 critically injured ...