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Illinois... Scott Richey covers college basketball for The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected], and you can follow him on Twitter ( @srrichey ).

Purdue released its entire nonconference schedule May 6. All nine one-off games plus the Baha Mar Championship and even a pair of exhibition games against Kentucky and Indianapolis. It's an impressive ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois state parks saw more visitors in 2024 than any point in the past 15 years, according to new data from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Illinois’ 290 ...

The Saluki Softball team is heading to the MVC Tournament Championship game after defeating Illinois State 8-3 on Friday. SIU started the scoring early. In the bottom of the 1st, Jackie Lis drove ...

‘‘I said [non-newspaper words], and I realized it might be the state record.’’ Joe Capilupo caught the Illinois-record smallmouth (7 pounds, 3 ounces) on Oct. 14, 2019, at Monroe Harbor.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — We're less than 100 days out to the Illinois State Fair, and that means that artists from across the country will be taking the stage at the Grandstand. With performers ...

As of Tuesday, the new Illinois Poet Laureate is named Mark Turcotte ... reflects the complex and beautiful landscape of both our state and the country as a whole through his unique perspective ...

Illinois State University announced Monday that all events in the Bone Student Center scheduled for Monday were canceled as police continued their search for a suspect in a Sunday shooting.

One person was injured during a shooting at a student center at Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, on Sunday night. According to reports from CBS affiliate WMBD-TV ...

Illinois State University officials in Normal sent out an emergency alert of a report of shots fired at the Bone Student Center just before 8 p.m. on April 27. ISU police were cautioning people to ...

NORMAL, Ill. (WLS) -- Our coverage of this story has moved here. Illinois State University issued a safety alert after a person was shot near its student center on campus. The shooting happened ...