Friday's visitation and celebration of life for U.S. Army veteran Garry Gannon will include a 21-gun salute.

A Danville woman was one of the 95 veterans, and the only female, who made the one-day trip this month for Honor Flight Misson No. 75.

$23.08 million: Estimated price tag for renovating the “group-style restrooms” on each floor of Trelease and Oglesby halls into “modern single-user restrooms” — plus new vanities and countertops “for residents that do not need a private restroom.”

"Better Call Saul" star drops by WILL to lend support for public media ... Project 500 pioneer honored with street designation in Campustown ... T-minus seven days until launch of the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory from Cape Canaveral.

The 9,207 first-year students now in their fourth week of classes descended upon C-U from all over — 61 countries (the smallest: Malta, pop. 545,000), one territory (nine new Illini hail from Hong Kong) and every U.S. state but five (Hawaii, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming).

As Illinois mourns the weekend passing of the rarest of politicians — bipartisan former Gov. Jim Edgar — Editor Jeff D'Alessio asked a panel of historians, political scientists and others: Is the country more polarized than at any point since the Civil War, as some have claimed in recent days, and what’s your level of optimism we can find our way back?

Police learned that one man attempted to distract a store associate while the other pushed out a flatbed cart with two DeWalt Power Washers that cost $1,400.