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A dessert that’s the centerpiece of many Thanksgiving tables this week depends on help from seasonal migrant workers. Many of whom travel from Texas and…

Tamara Keith is a Senior Political Correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Many Illinois parents who have autistic children bring them to one of nineteen centers around the state, but that may change.Three-year-old Jackson Miller…

Singer-songwriter Barry Cloyd is back this week, talking about his upcoming concert at the Forest ParkNature Center on Saturday. The performance is part…

Four guards at a juvenile detention center in suburban Chicago have been indicted for allegedly encouraging detainees to attack fellow detainees as a form…

Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman says plans for a $132 million renovation at Memorial Stadium are on hold and instead the school will break ground…

A Peoria County jury took less than an hour to find Brandon Walker guilty of first-degree murder Friday for the death of his 8-year-old son, Navin Jones.

Officials say one patient at a mental health facility in southern Illinois has tested positive for Legionnaires' disease. Illinois' Department of Human…

SPRINGFIELD - The Springfield Art Association has opened a new $1.8 million Visual Arts Center.The State Journal-Register reports the 5,800-square-foot…

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World, about the legacy of Dutch settlements in the 17th-century New Netherland colony that would later become New York City. Shorto profiles colonist Adriaen van der Donck, the man who won a municipal charter for the city of New Amsterdam under Dutch rule, and explains why the city of Yonkers bears testament to van der Donck even today.