CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Will Riley scored his 19 points in the second half and No. 25 Illinois beat Maryland Eastern Shore 87-40 on Saturday. Kylan Boswell added 13 points, Tomislav Ivisic had 11 and ...

WEST LAYFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Trey Kaufman-Renn had 18 points and Myles Colvin and Camden Heide each scored 13 to lead No. 6 Purdue to an 80-45 rout of Marshall on Saturday. Colvin and Heide were ...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Luke Altmyer found Pat Bryant for a catch-and-run, 40-yard touchdown pass with 4 seconds left, sending No. 24 Illinois to a wild 38-31 victory over Rutgers on Saturday.

On Oct. 4, 16-year-old Cooper went to the Kankakee County Courthouse with his mom, Haven (Poppie) Walters, and stepdad, ...

In this weekend's A Taylor-Made Life, Taylor Leddin-McMaster writes about the challenge to try 30 new things in her 30th year ...

The headline from a discussion last week of the prospects for Metra in the coming years was certainly attention-getting: ...

On Sunday evening, Oct. 8, 1871, a small barn on the west side of Chicago was consumed by a fire that soon spread to ...

Mason Schweizer's column remembers Deb Johnston, who devoted her adult life to the same Kankakee community she grew up in, ...

Kankakee Valley Theatre Association will hold one special performance of the classic Christmas tale, Charles Dickens’ A ...

Deb Johnston, retired longtime physical education teacher and coach who became a pillar in Kankakee girls sports, as well as ...

My Blue Book is open and saddens my day, on this Nov. 18. Each week I open the calendar book I’ve used since 1980 to note ...

At Grant Park Elementary School, one could walk down a hallway and see windows open in one classroom and kids wearing coats ...