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Chicago has endured more than 2,000 shootings this year and a nearly 50 percent increase in homicides. Most of those shootings were gang-related. Some…

The latest album from Blues/Roots Rocker Peter Karp titled "The Arson's Match" is actually an over decade ago live date with former Rolling Stones member…

The Broadway musical “Rock of Ages” is a send-up to the outrageous hair and costumes especially favored by 1980s hair-metal acts.The Tony Award-winning…

The Chicago based bluegrass quartet Henhouse Prowlers is now a teenager. Founding member and banjo player Ben Wright said despite the title of their…

Just a month after Bloomington’s aldermen created a new police advisory board, the Normal Town Council heard recommendations Monday for improving how its…

Long before he was a professor of psychology, Travis Langley was a budding geek."I was born a nerdy child," Langley confessed wryly. "Seriously, my baby…

Once a librarian, always a librarian. That's how it is for Dorothy Kennett, a media librarian who, after retiring from Illinois State University, found a…

Normal leaders are moving ahead with plans for a new five-story building on the northeast arc of Uptown circle, the next step in a dramatic reshaping of…

Like many Americans, Gretchen Snow was horrified at the photos of a drowned Syrian refugee child who washed up on the shores of Greece. Then there were…

A Democratic candidate for governor and part-time farmer wants Illinois to ban the use of a controversial herbicide that’s damaged crops all over the…