It was here, as a 20-year-old UI Ph.D. student, that 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient Omar Yaghi “learned the meaning and pleasure of discovery, both personal and scientific.”

Make sure you're in line or have those fingers ready on your computer, as special event tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the David S. Palmer Arena box office and online at www.festivaloftreesdanville.com. Tickets are not available by telephone the first day of sales.

As an operations employee took several pieces of mirror down in preparation for repairs, he was surprised to find a signature gracing the wall behind them.

Meet Villa Grove's talented High School Confidential reporter, Eva Piercy.

The annual International Lineman’s Rodeo (which can be considered the Lineman's Olympics) has the best linemen from around the world competing in events based on traditional lineman tasks and skills.

Shooting believed to be tied to a domestic incident. 

One student was taken to the hospital with minor injuries after a Rantoul High bus was involved in a crash shortly after 2 p.m.

Thanks to the helpful folks in Enrollment Management, who ran this list for us, showing which high schools around the area and close by sent the most alums to the UI’s flagship campus this fall.

"Sitting in Foellinger Great Hall or walking through the central atrium always feels familiar and comforting. And a piece of pie after at the Intermezzo is brilliant."

For Texas Tech’s Nov. 11 visit — and Illinois’ return game in Lubbock in November 2026 — the contract stipulates that officials “must have Sweet 16 tournament experience."

“I think if any executive search firm in the country was concerned about letting something slip through the cracks, it’s probably yours,” Tony Bruno tells the CEO of JG Consulting.

“We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker says after President Donald Trump pushes forward with the plan to activate hundreds of National Guard soldiers, including some from Texas.

Keshawn J. Cotton, 21, of Danville, has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm by the Vermilion County State's Attorney's Office.

Champaign County Crime Stoppers is asking for the public's help identifying a suspect who robbed a bank.

“While we remain confident JG will deliver outstanding candidates for the most important job in our community, we have questions that must now be answered after what transpired in Des Moines,” Tony Bruno told The News-Gazette.

The promised deployment comes as ICE activity has ramped up in Chicago and its suburbs as part of “Operation Midway Blitz,” which has so far resulted in more than 800 arrests, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Shortly after 3 p.m. today, a man entered a bank in the 1000 block of South Neil Street, threatened staff and demanded money.

Victim was taken to Carle Foundation Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.