Tidye Ann Pickett stood only 5-feet-2, and barely weighed 100 pounds. But nine decades ago, she stood tall in American track.

Biofuels like ethanol can benefit both the economy and the environment.

There are two primary challenges to legislative plans to regulate homeschooling in Illinois.

When you care for someone with a disability or work in any capacity of providing service to that community, it’s impossible to become anything but intimately familiar with the way the state and federal government manage agencies.

“We can’t allow this violence to be normalized.” Cortland Town Trustee Randi Olson included that quote in her statement about a threat made against her political opponent, state Rep. Jeff Keicher, R-Sycamore.

An oft-repeated $1.1 billion demand from Chicago’s mayor would actually wind up costing state taxpayers $5.5 billion. And Gov. JB Pritzker is turning a big thumbs down.

July brought new changes to state laws.

Margaret Abbott of Chicago was the first American woman to win an Olympic event, capturing first place in women’s golf at the second of the modern Games, in Paris in 1900.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and the Illinois General Assembly should work together to improve police officer and motorist traffic stop safety. Giannoulias should consider printing two versions of motorists’ driver’s licenses to protect driver and police safety.