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At her mother’s home in Illinois, Tracy Balhan flips through photos of her dad, Bill Speer. In one picture, he’s smiling in front of a bucket ...

Former Illinois guard Tracy Abrams has made it a point to do as much as he could to give back to young people in Chicago since he left the city and Mount Carmel High School for Ch ...

Reese Rundle,Faces of Spring photo shoot at the News-Gazette in Champaign on Sunday, February 23, 2025. Zach Piatt covers high school sports at The News-Gazette. His email is zpiatt@news-gazette.com.

Monticello vs. St. Thomas More in a prep baseball game at STM in Champaign on Monday, April 14, 2025. Unity stunned defending state champion Pontiac with a pair of clutch home runs, winning 3-2 in ...

"If I had behaved as recklessly as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, I would have earned myself an extended stay in the brig or, more likely, a federal prison." ...

A group of more than 270 some men and women, who were rescued from forced labor in scam compounds months earlier but remain in detention in Myanmar, attempted a mass ...

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"Police are often the wrong tool to solve the real problems. That is not their fault for we called the police instead of funding the needs in the community," Urbana ...

Federal judge Claudia Wilken, who held a fairness hearing for a proposed settlement in House v. NCAA on April 7, seemed to be swayed by a mother. The judge was ...

Vytas Valincius has turned himself into the best hitter in the Illinois lineup this season, with the left fielder hitting .362 with six home runs and 45 RBI going into Tuesday night’s nonconference ...

For the second time in two years, a Chicago federal judge has struck down a state law concerning abortion because it violates opponents’ free speech rights.