but he also experienced his first electoral loss that same year in a failed bid for a seat in the Illinois House. Two years later, however, he was elected state representative, a post he’d hold ...

Some international students and recent graduates at University of Illinois Springfield have had their visas terminated, according to a letter from the UIS Chancellor. Students reportedly face ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of his ...

When Robert Gillespie was 19, his father and stepmother learned he is gay and told him he could no longer stay in their home.

Springfield, Illinois is becoming a hub for transportation ... the only issue is the amount of people leaving the state annually. "Lincoln Land community college has a world-renowned truck ...

PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny ...

Gina Gillmore-Wolter, president of the New Salem Lincoln League, explains that the drive shaft, just over her right shoulder, has fallen out of the floor of the gristmill, part of the ...