Thinking of heading to the 2025 Illinois State Fair? The first two music headliners have been announced. Here's what you need ...

MSU will bring back their iconic ‘Gruff Sparty’ logo for their game against Illinois on Saturday, wearing them with the ...

Dust off your acid-wash jeans and cowboy boots because the Illinois State Fair is turning up the volume for 2025. With rock ...

As a nurse in her 30s, Kristen Perez cringes at the prospect of working until she’s almost 70. But because of changes made to the state’s massively underfunded pension system 13 years ago, employees ...

Was it that shy glance, the clever line—or an offer to fix a clogged sink? As our readers’ stories attest, lightning often ...

The Republican president-elect’s victory and the GOP takeover of the Senate leaves just seven weeks of Democratic control of ...

Donald Trump's election has already triggered intense discussion of how he will impact the war in Ukraine, with all sides now ...

Check out the electoral map. It is a pretty simple exercise to see that some large swaths of the country did not succumb to ...

The Iowa State Fair board will seek a new operator for its venerable Steer N' Stein concession stand after employees, contractors, fair fees go unpaid ...

The fair’s CEO says the operators of Steer N' Stein, Michael and Kimberly Krantz, owe the fair more than $100,000.

A notice from the Department of Central Management Services said it received direction from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's ...