The 19th century still lives a three-hour drive south of Chicago. But traveling there the Amish way in a horse-drawn buggy will take a day and a half. Clinging to the simple life and shunning modern ...

ARTHUR, Ill. - "I always get in the last word," says Ben Graber as he grins at his wife, Betty, standing next to him in their comfortable farmhouse. "I say, 'Yes, dear.' " Signs posted on country ...

Not far from St. Louis, in and around Arthur, Illinois, is the largest concentration of Amish people in Illinois and the fourth-largest community of Old Order Amish in the United States. We visited ...

ARTHUR — Harvest to Home returns to the Illinois Amish Heritage Center from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6, and from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7. The center is located between Arcola and Arthur on ...

ARTHUR, Ill. (WCIA) — The Illinois Amish Heritage Center is getting ready for an expansion. The center — located east of Arthur and west of Arcola, just off the I-57 exit — announced the ...

ARTHUR — Peter Bysko has a workshop at home in Springfield, but his tools are all power tools. “I have hand tools,” he said with a chuckle, “but they're just for display.” He and his wife, Michele, ...

The oat binding and shocking event at the Illinois Amish Heritage Center east of Arthur on Wednesday, July 11, 2018. The oats before cutting and binding during oat shocking event at the Illinois Amish ...

Bruce Weiman, secretary of the board of the Illinois Amish Heritage Preservation Foundation, talks about how walls between the living area and a bedroom in the Schrock Home could be removed for church ...