Holding an edition of the Ford County Chronicle, Rachel Morris of Paxton poses with James Shields while she was visiting the ...

Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School Principal Kyle Bielfeldt, left, presents a certificate of appreciation to Tracy Epps, vice president of the Longview Community Bank, in recognition of the local ...

Speculation swirled around the death of Jean Gordon, who bought new the 1941 Packard 160 two-door convertible that Royce Baier now owns. Her passing shocked the East Coast. The niece by marriage of ...

URBANA — Champaign County Sheriff Dustin Heuerman said that he, like other sheriffs “all across the state,” has been inundated with Freedom of Information Act requests, causing a burden on the time of ...

PAXTON — The Paxton-Buckley Loda school district’s interim superintendent sent a letter to families and staff Thursday night stating that no bedbugs were found in Clara Peterson Elementary School ...

Someone asked me the other day, “How old were you when you stopped believing in Santa Claus?” I said, “You’re assuming that I ever did.” I believe in Santa, not as a tangible human. Everyone knows ...

The Buckley Village Board on Monday, Dec. 1, approved placing a question on the March 17 election ballot asking voters whether they would support increasing the village’s debt amount — from $8 million ...

Illinois is heading into an energy crossroads, and for too many families and businesses, the warning lights are already flashing red. The newly passed Senate Bill 25 — the so-called Clean and Reliable ...

The long black 1941 Packard 160 two-door convertible slipped into a parking space in front of Paxton’s State Street Mall. It was a typical late-fall day — partly cloudy, a chill in the air, a couple ...

The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity girls basketball team won the Calvary Turkey Shootout championship on Tuesday. The Panthers ...

The Cissna Park High School boys basketball team lost 63-45 to Bismarck-Henning-Rossville-Alvin on Tuesday. Dierks Neukomm ...

The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley/Fisher High School wrestling team won 47-27 over Stanford Olympia on Tuesday. Ian Rotramel ...