All aboard the Peoria Train Fair at Illinois Central College in East Peoria. The event had more than 100 tables set up and 41 ...

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, has died.

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers and became the only woman to compete for the United States in the long jump at the ...

Staton, who went by the name of Mabel Landry when she attended DePaul in the 1950s, before the school had a women's track team, was inducted into the university's athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.

The paint scheme of locomotive No. 1616 will feature “the unique colors of Lincoln’s era,” UP (NYSE: UNP) said in a press release. It also honors steam locomotive No. 119, one of the two engines ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s ...

A unanimous Supreme Court on Friday dealt a severe blow to Holocaust survivors and their families in a long-running lawsuit ...

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

Its history not only preserved through its architecture and its role in the labor movement, but by two brothers who worked ...

The transition to zero-emission technology on the bus side is well documented, yet significant challenges remain for ...

MVoters will decide whether to give Cunningham or Rivera their party’s nomination to become Waukegan’s mayor in the Democratic primary election on Feb. 25, with the winner advancing to what will ...