Illinois' best-known city might be Chicago, but outside that bustling metropolis, the state also offers a capital sure to ...

Matt VanAcker said the conservation efforts will allow visitors to view the flag as it was when it returned to the county in ...

Rampant and haphazard growth after the Civil War left Springfield dirty, dangerous, unhealthful and inconvenient. The race riots in 1908 left the city’s worthy citizens with what we might call a ...

A rare Lincoln letter at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows how race shaped early White House life and presidential power.

J. B. Pritzker, the gargantuan, super-sized poster boy for obesity, recently said that Trump was “trying to re-enact the Civil War. I’ve been thinking a civil war was coming for the last forty years.

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The situation in the State of Illinois, particularly in and around the city of Chicago, cannot continue. Federal facilities in Illinois, including those directly supporting Immigration and Customs ...

Once a booming river port and Civil War stronghold, Cairo stood at the crossroads of history. Today, it tells a darker story of decline, division, and decay. Republicans Begin Grumbling About Their ...

Dr. James I. Robertson spoke to the Civil War Roundtable of the Ozarks on September 20, 1960. The editor of a quarterly publication, Civil War History, and the author of several books, Robertson ...

Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar is lying in state at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield ahead of his funeral this weekend. Edgar, a Republican who served as governor from 1991 to 199, died ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Flags in the state of North Carolina will be lowered to half-staff on Saturday in honor of a civil rights icon who helped to shape history in Greensboro. Major General Joseph ...