Thus far in this series on Psalm 85, we’ve seen God doing a work of revival in answer to the Psalmist’s prayer for God to “….revive us again…..” (85:6). We saw that the Psalmist remembers God’s past ...

PAXTON – Gillian Littleton started her first week as the Paxton Park District’s recreation director on Wednesday. Only one day in, the Paris native says she feels “like I’m home.” “I feel blessed,” ...

Geronimo Power has established an office in the Marshall Building in downtown Paxton for its proposed Sprouting Skies Wind Farm in Ford and Iroquois counties. The 500-megawatt project would comprise ...

PAXTON — A Paxton based residential garbage hauler and commercial waste collection company has been sold to a Florida-based company. GFL Environmental, based in Miami Beach, has purchased Central ...

URBANA — Onetime Roberts resident Paul E. Theesfield, who was sentenced in 2022 to 12 years in federal prison for striking a woman with his vehicle in Gibson City as part of a bizarre plot to kidnap ...

PAXTON – The Paxton Park Board approved the hiring of Rantoul resident Gillian Littleton as the Paxton Park District’s recreation director during Tuesday’s meeting. Littleton will start working at her ...

When Andrew Rosten exited the Ford County Chronicle’s office in downtown Paxton late Thursday morning carrying a suddenly broken trophy in his arms, our trip to the Illinois Press Association’s annual ...

DWIGHT – Regardless of the outcome of Saturday’s IHSA Class 1A Dwight Sectional championship game, the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley varsity baseball team surpassed expectations this postseason. After ...

RANTOUL — Johnnie C. McClendon Jr., 35, of Rantoul, was arrested by Rantoul police at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 28, for predatory criminal sexual assault. McClendon was taken into custody without incident ...

ELLIOTT — Village trustees met a second time in May for the purpose of addressing items said to have been left off the regular monthly meeting’s agenda and to see about progress on several ...

DANVILLE — Steven Almon Cornett, 64, of Danville, uncle of Paxton Police Chief Coy Cornett, died Wednesday, May 27, 2026. A celebration of his life was at 3 p.m. Monday, June 1, at the Vermilion ...

ST. JOSEPH – The Paxton Swedes had 19 players available for their Eastern Illinois Baseball League season-opening doubleheader against the Royal Giants on Sunday. “That’s the most we’ve had show up ...