Discover a hidden Illinois fortress with French colonial roots, river drama, stone walls, rare history, and surprising ...

The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute’s Renewing Illinois program encourages Illinois university students to discuss and debate creative solutions to revitalize the Prairie State. While preparing ...

This Week in Illinois History provides a 90-second snapshot of an event significant to Illinois history. Join Host Clint Cargile as he covers big events while also exposing little-known pieces of ...

The history of the United States is deeply marked by questions of political polarization and how to best deal with it, and ...

An important date for one of the best states in the country is here -- and you might not even know about it. National Illinois Day, on Dec. 7, commemorates the history, art and culture owed to the ...

On April 21, 1967, at least 10 tornadoes touched down in northern Illinois. The most severe of these touched down in Belvidere, Oak Lawn and Lake Zurich. It was the worst such storm in the area’s ...