This USDA National Forest in Southern Illinois allows camping and horseback riding. 6. Visit Rockford's Discovery Center Children's Museum Comparable to big city museums, this north central ...

Illinois Central College students looking for housing will need to seek alternatives to the junior college's on-campus apartment complex. ICC president Sheila Quirk-Bailey, in an email to the ...

Watco Railroad Company Holdings will purchase Great Lakes Central Railroad, expanding its Michigan presence. The deal is subject to approval by the Surface Transportation Board. Great Lakes ...

Central Illinois may get a taste of spring next week, following a bitter cold snap that changed its tune. Temperatures Friday are warming and will see a high near 28 in Springfield. The weather ...

The Illinois Central College women’s basketball team is headed back to the national tournament. ICC on Tuesday earned an at-large bid to the 2025 NJCAA Division II tournament, the program's 32nd ...

In 1913, abolitionist and Underground Railroad “conductor” Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia in Auburn, New York. In 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tennessee, to assassinating ...

STEPHENSON COUNTY, Ill. (WIFR) - An estimated $1.1 million project to upgrade a rail crossing near Lena is approved by the ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - Warm weather continues across Central Illinois through the end of the week. While highs today will be similar to Monday in the upper-50s, plenty of sunshine is in the ...

Highs today will reach the low-70s again, warm into the mid-70s Thursday, and to record or near record highs Friday in the upper-70s. While we'll see more clouds today than the past few days ...