The land in southern Dekalb County once belonged to Chief Shab-eh-nay of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation but was seized and sold by the U.S. when the chief was visiting relatives.

SPRINGFIELD — More than 175 years after their reservation in Illinois was illegally sold ... a 1,500-acre tract in southern DeKalb County that largely overlaps the tribe’s original reservation.

Previously, Illinois ... Brand Reservation in Dekalb County. The tribal nation had spent $10 million over the years to get the land back before handing it over to the government to be put into ...

Senate Bill 2217, sponsored by state Sen. Suzanne Glowiak Hilton, D-Western Springs, mandates that all townships with a ...

Those of us old enough to celebrate the first Earth Day (1970) connect the modern environmental movement’s birth with current efforts to tidy up our planet. Saturday, April 26, brings together ...

Consolidated elections are taking place across Illinois on Tuesday, with some of the state's biggest communities casting ballots.

The grant — the Local Food Purchase Assistance, or LFPA, program — allowed DeKalb ... by the federal government for the produce purchases past February. On March 4, the Illinois Department ...

Consolidated elections will take place across Illinois on Tuesday ... the latest election results on the Cook County Clerk’s website. Voters in DeKalb have a mayoral race on the ballot, while ...

Miller wins mayoral race. Jodi Miller has won a third term as Mayor of Freeport against her opponent Joshua Atkinson. Miller ...

In the 1829 Treaty of Prairie Du Chien, Prairie Band Chief Shab-eh-nay was granted two square miles of land, or 1,280 acres, in what is now DeKalb County ... News Illinois is a nonprofit, nonpartisan ...

Attorney general sues over Trump's education order Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and 20 other state attorneys general are asking a federal judge to halt President Donald Trump’s move to ...