His hometown is hoops-town. Hoopeston, actually. And while there are other communities on either side of the Illinois/Indiana state line nurturing hoop dreams, few have had those manifested as ...

Noyes is a Hoopeston High School Class of 1961 graduate who has written the novel "Yonders, Illinois." The novel takes place in a fictionalized version of Vermilion County (Marigold County ...

It's corn! "The Sweetcorn Capital of the World" is Hoopeston, Illinois, and a cornjerker is (or was) a farmer who harvested corn. Technology has changed the process of harvesting corn, but the ...