1949: One-time Chicago Cub Eddie Waitkus, by then with the Philadelphia Phillies, became the inspiration for “The Natural” when he was shot in the Edgewater Beach Hotel by Ruth Ann Steinhagen, a ...

LINCOLN — Nebraska’s athletic department is nearly finished with installing new stadium turf and a refreshed HuskerVision video board inside Memorial Stadium, athletic director Troy Dannen ...

Memorial Stadium’s newly installed field turf had been laid just in time for over 300 high schoolers to make it their own. Nebraska hosted the first Matt Rhule Football Camp of the summer on ...

I think tax breaks and property tax certainty and money for stadium development is not high on the list for the people of Illinois,” Buckner said. As for legislation that did reach the goal line ...

A big reason for those reductions, she said, was the uncertainty over whether Republican President Donald Trump’s administration would deprive Illinois ... move to a new stadium in Arlington ...

Scottie Scheffler won the 2025 Memorial Tournament for the second year in a row. The total purse for the tournament was $20 million. Scheffler took home $4 million for his victory. (Editor's note ...

John Badman is a 1982 graduate of SIU-Carbondale, with a major in cinema and photography and a minor in law enforcement administration of justice. He has worked at The Telegraph in Alton full-time ...

Several big names barely survived the cut at the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club. For most of the day, the cut line was at 4 over. The top 50 players and any golfer within 10 ...

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported the number of Illinois jurisdictions on the list. The Trump administration has added more than 100 Illinois counties and cities to ...

The Cheesecake Factory has announced plans to open new locations in three states by 2026, including Illinois. This follows the recent opening of a location in Colorado earlier this month.