I regularly encourage readers to become informed voters and the media should play a role so voters don’t have to track down individual candidates at home just to get a question answered.

My love of books should be well known by anyone who knows me or reads these weekly chats. But today I want to share your love of books.

Paper pushers could go mad trying to figure out how much of each cafeteria pizza can trace its origins to the Land of Lincoln. To be fair, Rep. Harper isn’t suggesting anyone solve such an equation.

Opinion: With more than 100 vendors attending, Thursday's Local Showcase and Spring Show is your chance to discover and connect with local businesses and organizations in a fun way, writes Alexis Aviles of the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce.

It’s very easy to argue that young children facing accusations that would warrant detention are far more likely to have their lives set on a new course if kept out of institutional punitive settings.

Senate Bill 1238 would make it easier for residents in Illinois to access nonopioid pain treatment options.

In Gideon, Justice Hugo Black described the “noble ideal (of) fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law.”

In Illinois, the first Earth Day in 1970 was celebrated from the largest cities to the smallest towns, especially in schools, as thousands of the state’s schoolchildren took the day to learn to help the planet.  

We don’t tell them there is an Easter bunny. They know we hide the eggs.