The Eyes and the Impossible” (2023 Knopf) by Dave Eggers won the Newbery this year, and what a book! The story is told by ...

Coleman Hawkins scored 15 points, grabbed seven rebounds and made four blocks as No. 10 Illinois held on to beat Michigan ...

Rantoul's Rebekah Maxwell, St. Thomas More's Emily Herges, Villa Grove's Alison Pangburn, Central's Faith Kazadi, Armstrong's ...

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The Spurlock Museum of World Cultures will host a live poetry and arts event Sunday aimed at fostering shared expression and ...

Lori Borgman is a Tribune News Service columnist. Reach her at lori@loriborgman.com.

The characters enjoying the summer out at Kaufman Lake aren’t a hallucination. They’re the handiwork of Champaign Park ...

While the proposal to eliminate the one-cent sales tax on groceries remains pending before the legislature, the mayors of Champaign and Urbana view the cut as a fait accompli requiring ...

Russia has launched a barrage of drones on eastern Ukraine as the country marks its third Easter at war. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians in an Easter address to be ...

Zach Piatt is a prep sports reporter at The News-Gazette. He can be reached at zpiatt@news-gazette.com.

In the new historical novel titled “The American Daughters” by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, we travel back to 1851, a time when ...

So, over the holidays, I had the great pleasure of spending time with four of my grandchildren who live out of state.