The Domestic Arts Building was filled with entries this year for the 100th anniversary of the building. The ...

Olivia Storey is a member of the Washington Wonders 4-H Club. This year she had several entries at the Newton County Fair: ...

Bradley Hayworth came from Florida to participate in the Newton County Fair. He is a member of the Busy Beavers 4-H Club. He ...

Vicki Carlson, owner of The Trumpet Vine Gift Shop on U.S. 41 just north of Morocco, selected a photograph of a sunflower by ...

Six contestants sought the title of 2025 Iroquois County Fair Queen Tuesday night during the opening night of the Iroquois ...

Kankakee Valley’s ace pitcher for the past four years, Alex Barr, has been selected in the Major League Baseball Draft by the ...

RENSSELAER — Rensselaer Central junior Jayse Kueny was awarded a $825 Bombers for Academic Excellence grant in the spring.

RENSSELAER — Fendig Theatre for Children celebrated its 50th anniversary this summer with a full-scale production of Matilda the Musical, a show that not only entertained but fulfilled the organizatio ...

Thea Richardson is in the Horse and Pony 4-H Club. She shows horses and rabbits at the Newton County Fair. This year she had a horse, a rabbit and made a poster for chickens. She likes being in 4-H.

Riley Smith enjoys the Newton County Fair. A member of the Washington Wonders 4-H Club, Smith entered two sheep, two goats, floriculture and ceramics projects. She earned grand champion with ...

Cameron Moberg and his band of mural artists created two more murals behind the Amtrak station in Rensselaer last week, including a train motif hidden among a field of sunflowers ...

Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs returned a record $303.8 million in missing money to nearly 312,000 residents, businesses and organizations through the I-CASH program during Fiscal Year 2025 ...