News from around the Southland includes items from Metra’s Electric and Rock Island lines, Hickory Hills, Will County and ...

Agnes I. Kapraun Gaspardo, 89, of Minonk, IL, passed away Friday, May 30, 2025, at 9:10 a.m. at OSF St. James Hospital in Pontiac, IL. She was born in Streator, IL, on May 16, 1936, the daughter ...

Mary Martha was born in Oak Park, IL, on September 5, 1931, ... (1956–1961). In 1961 she became a nursing instructor at St. Agnes School of Nursing, Fond du Lac, ...

Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich led a special Mass at Rate Field for the election of a first-ever Chicago-born pope, Pope ...

The best spellers in the country are in Washington, D.C. for the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee, including 13 contestants from Illinois and more than half a dozen from the Chicago area.

Under a bright sun, around an altar set up at centerfield, more than a dozen priests and bishops led by Chicago Cardinal ...

On the 81st anniversary of the unprecedented D-Day invasion at Normandy, the memory of one Navy veteran lives on after his ...

Cupich concelebrated a special Mass for the election of a first-ever Chicago-born pope. Trinity Sunday's vigil Mass June 14 ...

The last four popes of the Catholic Church — John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and our new pope, Leo XIV — had hardworking ...

The Sangamon County Coroner's office said 8-year-old Bradley Lund had been hospitalized at HSHS St. John's Hospital since suffering multiple blunt force injuries in the crash on April 28.

Deacon John Victor Sebastian, a devoted family man, faithful servant of God, and cherished member of his community, passed away peacefully at the age of 83 on May 31, 2025. Son of the late Drs. Joh… ...

I have always been fascinated with history and how life was in earlier times in County, Illinois. When I’m hunting mushrooms in the woods and run across iris growing, I know there must have been a ...