CHAMPAIGN – The University of Illinois football team held its annual moms’ practice on Saturday at Gies Memorial Stadium. “Today is always a fun day. It’s fun for our kids,” Illinois head coach Bret ...

NORMAL – Having one daughter play a sport in a Division I school is one thing. Dale Boyer, a Paxton native, acknowledges that he and his wife, Amy Boyer, are “really lucky” to have two daughters ...

PAXTON – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity softball team lost 9-0 to Oakwood on Saturday. Kyla Grohler hit 2-for-3 while Faith Lusk and Meredith Foster each doubled. On the mound, Foster struck out ...

CISSNA PARK – The Cissna Park varsity baseball team lost 9-6 to Ridgeview on Saturday. Wyatt Marcott hit 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored while Seth Walder went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Evan ...

PAXTON — A former Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School teacher accused of soliciting a teenager for sex will remain jailed through trial, a judge ruled Thursday. During a rescheduled detention hearing in ...

BISMARCK – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda boys and girls track and field teams each finished second at a meet on Thursday at Bismarck-Henning-Rossville-Alvin High School. The PBL boys finished with a score ...

JUNIOR HIGH At Paxton 7th-grade boys Team scores 1. Paxton-Buckley-Loda, 55; 2. Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley, 46; 3. Rantoul St. Malachy, 8. 100-meter dash 1. Conner Smith (GCMS) 14:04; 2. Aaron Williams ...

Here are some sights from Friday's game, which PBL won 10-9 in nine innings ...

BISMARCK – The Cissna Park varsity baseball team lost 10-0 to Bismarck-Henning-Rossville-Alvin on Thursday. Jream Renteria provided Cissna Park’s lone hit as he went 1-for-2. On the mound, Wyatt ...

BUCKLEY -- Before the village can move forward with building a sanitary sewer treatment plant and collection system for Buckley, the town board must first determine how to make up a nearly $2 million ...

By LILY YOUNG Chronicle news reporter intern PAXTON — Miguel Teran and Santiago Nasevilla make it a priority in their respective classrooms at Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School to teach their students ...

I was proud to have one of my bills pass the Illinois House Transportation Regulation, Roads and Bridges Committee before the deadline last month. House Bill 2630 will take steps to make our rural ...