A new bill in Illinois’ House of Representatives proposes dissolving townships with a population of under 500 to streamline ...

At SIU, as at other regional universities, many research projects focus on overlooked issues in their own backyards. Here ...

Thousands of farmers and small rural businesses remain in limbo as USDA demands grant rewrites favoring fossil fuels over ...

Despite widespread concern that the pandemic exacerbated existing shortages of teachers, a new study of Illinois public ...

The Trump administration has sought to deport Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil for leading the pro-Palestinian ...

Do you know which township you live in? Many people don’t. But Illinois has 1,426 of them, so it’s worth paying attention to what they do. Bob Anderson is. The former McHenry Township ...

When Leslie Stewart moved to her home in a rural expanse of Lincoln County outside of Oklahoma City more than 20 years ago, ...

Down staters are leaving Chicago to make their own state, that’s the idea behind a nonprofit organization called New Illinois ...

Illinois towns are likely to embrace data center developments in exchange for property tax revenue and a few hundred jobs.

The divide between rural and urban areas in Illinois is one of the main drivers of many looking to split the state in two.

And they contend the Democratic-led cities have so much clout in state government that rural, Republican voices get drowned out. In the last five years, voters in 33 Illinois counties have been ...