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Howdy, folks! Come on in and say hey to your new friend, 2026, while waving goodbye to good ol’ 2025. As we work our way through the celebrations and commemorations inherent in the passing of the ...

Our annual REMEMBERING edition, the last issue of the year, reminds us small-town folks that people we thought we knew we didn’t know as well as we wish we had, and those we didn’t know, we wish we ...

A publicly traded company wants to build a large-scale data center in rural Logan County near Latham, about 30 miles ...

A recent study published by three state agencies warns electricity shortages are coming to Illinois. The shortages will start ...

A newly formed commission heard sobering testimony about federal agents’ excessive use of force, just days after Border ...

Illinois’ statewide 1% grocery tax will go away on Jan. 1, though many people will continue to pay it at the local level.

During my tenure as the pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church, one of the annual highlights each year was anticipating ...

Julie Rea has told this story hundreds of times. But no matter how many times she tells it, the story never makes sense.

The family of a nonverbal 11-year-old boy with autism who lives at a Hope Learning Academy residential home called Illinois ...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced a settlement this week with Menards to resolve a suit Raoul and nine other ...

In the following pages we display one cover a year for each year we’ve been publishing. That’s 51 covers. Since we didn’t get started until late in 1975, we’ve used the first nine months of 2025 to ...