BLOOMINGTON — Affordable housing, good infrastructure, public safety and other quality-of-life issues are as important to Illinois Wesleyan ... include revitalizing downtown Bloomington through ...

A vacant 115-year-old Pekin building will have a new occupant after the Pekin City Council approved a special use permit for a cannabis dispensary.

Indentured servitude, the equivalency of slavery, was allowed in Illinois. Legins-Costley lived for many years in Pekin, where she is commemorated with a downtown memorial. A Pekin woman who ...

The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case of Nance Legins-Costley, who was freed from indentured servitude by an ...

The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center ... its most compelling exhibits and is expected to draw new audiences downtown. "By opening the downtown satellite museum, we hope to reach ...

An artist’s rendering of the new visitors’ center at the Illinois Holocaust Museum. “By opening the downtown satellite museum, we hope to reach new audiences who haven’t had the ...

The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center ... On July 1, the museum will fully close for construction, with the downtown satellite location opening that month. The online gift shop ...

The cuts will significantly impact Illinois farmers, particularly those from historically underserved communities, and limit access to nutritious food for those in need. The most recent round of ...

In the early 1980s, a high school in Pekin, Illinois, dropped its mascot, a derogatory term for Chinese people. More recently, the NFL team in Washington, D.C., relinquished the Redskins.

PEKIN (25News Now) - Pekin city leaders are considering a new dispensary downtown. A local lawyer specializing in cannabis industry law, Thomas Howard, proposed the business to the Pekin City Council ...

PEKIN Ill. (WMBD) — On Monday, Pekin City Council heard a proposal for a new cannabis dispensary, which would go downtown in a historic 115-year-old building on Court Street. 359 Court St. was ...