From heartbreak in 2014 to a historic run in 2025, the Illinois State "road warriors" are headed back to the national championship. Former Redbird stars are passing the torch and heading to Nashville to watch this resilient team finish what they started a decade ago.

The public is invited to town hall meetings next week to meet the two finalists to become the next superintendent of Peoria Public Schools.

Bradley has scheduled an early February groundbreaking ceremony for its new outdoor recreation complex, with a pickleball tournament as part of the activities.

For nearly 30 years, Eric “Coach E” Ewald has shaped Lincoln basketball from the background — building confidence, refining an offense and quietly making players better people. Now, the longtime Railers assistant is stepping into the spotlight as an inductee of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

The change adds 16 schools to the brackets of each of the eight classes, determined by student enrollment, that make up the IHSA Football Championships.

A new three-megawatt community solar farm has opened on the Brimfield School District campus, making it the first solar project in Illinois built on public school property as part of a statewide renewable energy initiative.

The gift to the Illinois Central College Educational Foundation comes from Philippi-Hagenbuch Inc., which makes customized mining equipment and off-highway haul trucks.

Central Illinois farmers will get a chance to learn more about economic trends in the agriculture industry at an upcoming seminar in East Peoria.

With work underway on the Catholic Diocese of Peoria’s project to transform the former Spalding Institute into a new facility honoring the life and legacy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, current Bishop Louis Tylka is restoring the Sheen Foundation Advisory Board.

The two institutions announced a direct admission agreement that gives qualifying Bradley seniors and recent graduates guaranteed acceptance to DePaul’s College of Law in Chicago, along with scholarship support.