The Miami Marlins claimed right-handed reliever Seth Martinez off waivers Thursday from the Arizona Diamondbacks. Martinez ...

Illinois may be know as the Land of Lincoln, but the attractions it offers for kids and families go beyond the 16th president ...

Garry Moore will present "Why Black History Month & DEI Matters" at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17, at Laborers Local 362 Hall, 2012 Fox Creek Road in Bloomington.

Michele Emerson was a 9-year-old goalie. Traveling from Illinois to Canada for the 1978 International Silver Stick, she was ...

According to the note left by the photography team, the historic Bill Wade Photography ... “I see a lot of obituaries with people my age and think if I don’t quit, I’ll never quit," Wade ...

Ankrom's interest in Abraham Lincoln led him to a 10-year study of Stephen Douglas. The results have been two award-winning ...

Dave Joens has led the Illinois State Archives, the government agency tasked with preserving official government documents ...

Illinois might be landlocked, but these eight seafood joints prove you don’t need an ocean view to serve up some seriously ...

Feb. 15, Hancock County Historical Society quarterly meeting will host Reg Ankrum, a resident of Quincy, speaking on “The Statehood of Illinois and County Formation.” He is a ...

The job of caring for historic records has been a natural ... science and another in history—and a Ph. D. in Illinois history. While he was getting his master’s degrees, he interned with a newspaper ...

Lincoln was sailing up the Great Lakes on his way home from Congress in 1848 when he witnessed another steamer that was aground. The scene led Lincoln to develop an invention to float ships off shoals ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis read the newspapers and had breakfast on Sunday after a second night sleeping well at the hospital where the 88-year-old pope is being treated for a respiratory tract ...