Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, has died.

The Pontiac Public Library is hosting the month-long exhibition with special events scheduled for Feb. 11 and 22.

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers and became the only woman to compete for ...

All aboard the Peoria Train Fair at Illinois Central College in East Peoria. The event had more than 100 tables set up and 41 ...

Part of the industrial project happened in Mattoon in 1914. It lowered the Illinois Central Railroad tracks so trains from the four big cities could cross through: Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati ...

Larry McClellan, a founding professor at Governors State University, has spent decades researching, writing and speaking ...