Susan McKinney is the librarian at the St. Joseph Township-Swearingen Memorial Library. She received her master’s degree in ...

The Bulldogs had their backs against the wall, but they rallied to win the first state title in Mahomet-Seymour volleyball ...

"So you'll pick up your design on the front and pick what player you want, and we'll actually make it for you there." ...

The last time Illinois had as much fun at First and Kirby was in 2001, when Ron Turner's Big Ten champions went 6-0 at home.

It’s always a festive occasion when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra comes to Foellinger Great Hall, but when Riccardo Muti is on the podium, the concert is likely to be filed ...

Champaign County Republicans have seen the heights and now the depths. For most of the county’s history, the GOP was so dominant that it held virtually all of the countywide offices, controlled the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Russia has launched 120 missiles and 90 drones in a large-scale attack across Ukraine targeting its energy infrastructure. Zelenskyy said on Sunday th ...

It’s interview season on my Chinese campus! Students email me interview requests. Their engineering teachers want them to survey opinions about their projects, and their English teachers want them to ...

Years ago, a bona fide gourmet cook showed me how she passed off store-bought bread as homemade by sprinkling a little sifted flour on top. From that day forward, I was always suspicious of her ...

In the red election wave this voting season, the electorate of several Illinois counties feel that the crimson tide hasn’t sufficiently reached them. By a vote each of 70 percent ...

The forecast is bleak. The devastating defeat of the Democratic Party portends a despotic, dismal, desolate and austere future. However, we’ve been here before. History doesn’t repeat itself. As the ...

At one of my ladies groups recently, a few of us were commenting that there were a few difficult people in the group; we exchanged some constructive ideas for dealing ...