The fair is offering free admission and meals for individuals, businesses and community groups who volunteer for this year's ...

Country music hit-maker Jake Owen will headline the Illinois State Fair Grandstand on Aug. 8. With 10 No. 1 singles and more ...

MATERA, Italy (AP) — Overall leader Mads Pedersen made it three wins out of five at this year’s Giro d’Italia as he won a ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds are paying tribute to Pete Rose on Wednesday night, a day after baseball’s career hits ...

• Police were called at 2:06 a.m. Wednesday to McDonald's at 520 W. Morton Ave. for a disturbance involving a woman who had ...

Eleven students have been chosen to receive the Howard and Vera Million Endowed Scholarship at Illinois College.

Nicholas Gentile pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of attempted tampering with physical evidence in the Dec. 9 beating ...

DETROIT (AP) — A 19-year-old man was arrested after spending months planning an attack on a U.S. Army site in suburban ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 274,000 of its Expedition and Lincoln-branded Navigator SUVs across the U.S. due to ...

SEATTLE (AP) — J.P. Crawford hit an RBI single down the left-field line in the 11th inning as the Seattle Mariners ended ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou was set to face questions Wednesday from a parliamentary inquiry into alleged abuse at ...

It was more than 100 years ago that Shoeless Joe Jackson was among eight Black Sox banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 ...