This week’s roundup of news and views for Illinois farmers and rural dwellers begins in Omaha, Neb. where Creighton University’s Rural Mainstreet Index slipped for a third straight…
MACKINAW Wine, beer festival May 26-27 Mackinaw Valley Winery will hold its annual International Music, Wine and Craft Beer Festival May 26-27. The festival will feature more than…
In an interview with the USDA Illinois Director of Rural Affairs, Doug Wilson said quality of life is what rural dwellers seek most — we have details. Also making rural and farm headlines…
MAY 17-18 Spring Fling at the Riverfront Thurs. & Fri., beginning at 6 p.m. Peoria Riverfront $35 Event features Stone Sour, Stone Temple Pilots, I Prevail, Pop Evil, Sevendust,…
This week: the fallout from the White House trade war with China and uncertainties regarding other foreign trade deals is leading to record low confidence in the ag economy, while crop…
MAY 24-27 Morton Civic Chorus: Encore 2018 Thurs.-Sat. 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 2 p.m. Hartman Center Theater Bradley University Campus $15 Denise Adams directs the group in a concert that will…
REGIONAL OSF HealthCare moves forward with downtown building project OSF HealthCare is getting closer to seeing its Peoria Ministry headquarters become a reality. The organization…
An error on behalf of a farm chemical supplier left 150 local propane customers with tanks loaded with anhydrous ammonia. In April, Manito Transit, a subsidiary of Growmark, Inc., filled…
Man killed on South SideA 35-year-old man was killed Thursday morning on Chicago's South Side. Police ...
One killed, another injured in ...One man was killed and another man was injured Monday night in ...
Pedestrian killed on South SideA woman was killed Thursday evening when hit by a vehicle on ...
Statewide childhood lead testing plannedNearly 13 percent of the 1,350 Illinois ZIP codes at high risk ...
