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The trek to Southern Illinois last summer to see the total solar eclipse was a good trial run. → Read More
DECATUR — A woman who would climb up to the roof during a downpour to plug a leak is a force to be reckoned with. → Read More
The Underground Railroad didn't actually involve any trains or track, but conductors needed a backbone of iron and nerves of steel. → Read More
My first experience hanging out in a coffeehouse came a decade ago while our daughter Sarah was attending Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. The place was Jackson Avenue Coffee, and → Read More
Why, if your children are supposed to keep you young, are they so good at making you feel old? → Read More
A dog in survival mode sees every human, even those trying to help, as a threat. → Read More
Meeting a fire truck while driving northwest on Illinois 121, black smoke billowing into a blue sky on the horizon beyond, is a sight I won't soon forget. → Read More
Sending her older son off to college promised to be a hardship, despite a generous scholarship. → Read More
CERRO GORDO – You might say Sierra Day's passion for cattle was born and bred into her. → Read More
ARGENTA – Disappointed he didn't make the middle school baseball team the day before, 11-year-old Damon Roper of Oreana asked Dee Brown a question from the heart. → Read More
DECATUR – Gina Bianchi isn't someone who will ask you to do something she isn't willing to do. → Read More
SPRINGFIELD – For Courtney Westlake, beauty resides not in the eye of the beholder but in the heart. → Read More
DECATUR – It's a rare thing when a food pantry comes to you rather than the other way around. → Read More
DECATUR – Employees of Decatur's Ruby Tuesday restaurant were notified electronically Wednesday morning they no longer had jobs. → Read More
DECATUR – Recalling the scientific breakthrough they made earlier this month, David Bruns, 16, of Rosemont and Connor Dickey, 15, of Decatur acted like it was just another day at → Read More
DECATUR – Of the half-dozen teenagers who crowd around a planter stationed at a south door to MacArthur High School, Victoria Dickson is the one who literally stays down to → Read More
DECATUR – Chris Hall has trouble prying himself from his pillow when his 3-month-old son cries at night. → Read More
DECATUR – Christmas never seems to be farther away than during the dog days of summer. → Read More
DECATUR – Hoping to be a lawyer one day, Michael Hong had trouble seeing the relevance of the chemistry class he took at Maroa-Forsyth High School. → Read More
DECATUR -- Second- and third-place finishers in the Boys & Girls Club of Decatur's summer reading program may have taken home identical 20-inch bicycles, but Rokia Perkins, 11, knew she → Read More