Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or asmussen ...

There is one voter who had Illinois ranked sixth in the preseason poll and sixth this week. Seems like he might know what ...

As magnificent as the paintings are of that first Thanksgiving, they’re missing the smell of sweat and hard work, the sound ...

Spitfire Chicken, a new restaurant at The Crossing in Champaign on Nov. 10, 2025. Taco Bell at 2004 Patton Drive opened ...

Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos have gathered in Manila to demand accountability for a flood-control corruption scandal. The rally, led by the religious group Iglesia Ni Cristo, is the largest ...

President Alexander Stubb of Finland told The Associated Press that a ceasefire in Ukraine is unlikely before spring. Despite a corruption scandal in Kyiv, he urged European allies to maintain ...

Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or asmussen ...

Ford Motor Co.’s new headquarters, the carmaker's first central office switch since Dwight Eisenhower was president, is double the size of its old one with room ...

At the halfway point of annual United Nations climate negotiations in Brazil, it appears the talks may do more than just focus on implementing past promises, as some observers had ...

Many Republican leaders insist there's no problem with the GOP's policies, the party's message or President Donald Trump’s leadership, despite big losses in this month's elections. Trump says Democrat ...

With the big day just around the bend, we asked a supersized panel of as-seen-on-TV chefs and other foodies with local ...

As an unprecedented immigration crackdown enters a third month, a growing number of Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a racist and aggressive overreach of the federal ...