True freshmen should never be finished products. One of the best dumb opinions is when meatball fan A says freshman B can’t do C because he didn’t do C in [...]

A security guard wearing an electric fan on his neck wipes his sweat on a hot day in Beijing, Monday, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo / Andy Wong) The entire [...]

Nearly eight months after Illinois voters handily rejected his candidacy for governor, Darren Bailey announced Tuesday his bid for Congress in downstate’s massive 12th District, setting up an intense Republican [...]

A new NCAA rule this season will let college basketball teams have two extra assistant coaches on the bench. On Monday, head coach Brad Underwood announced Illinois’ two new assistants [...]

Since the mass shooting at last year’s Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois has moved swiftly on gun control measures. The most controversial has been the ban on [...]

Story Links CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Illinois head coach Brad Underwood announced Monday the elevation of staff members Zach Hamer and Tyler Underwood to assistant coaches following the NCAA's [...]

DANVILLE, Ill. (WCIA) – Thousands of people are still without power after severe storms rolled through Central Illinois last week. Ameren Illinois says among the hardest hit areas in the [...]

Mayor Brandon Johnson addresses the news media on Monday, July 3, 2023. (Mayor's Office) More than 2,000 Chicagoans called city officials to report their basements flooded as a result of [...]

Rebecca Journey, a lecturer at the University of Chicago, thought little of calling her new undergraduate seminar “The Problem of Whiteness.” Though provocatively titled, the anthropology course covered familiar academic [...]

On this edition of the Oskee Talk podcast, TCR’s Pleas Honeywood joins the show to talk about reaction to last week’s episode & our “All-Time Illini Starting Five” (2:25) and [...]

Greetings and salutations, Illinois Land! It’s refreshing to see Illinois basketball back where it belongs — embroiled in social media controversy yet again. This time it feels different. The difference [...]

Story Links CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – With the NCAA's coaching limit increase going into effect on July 1, former Fighting Illini softball ace Sydney Sickels has been named the [...]

After severe drought conditions expanded across the area this week, a weekend full of rain has helped to turn things around for a lot of communities that had started to [...]

FILE - A person walks along the shore of Lake Michigan as the downtown skyline is blanketed in haze from Canadian wildfires, June 27, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo / [...]

In the immediate aftermath of last year’s mass shooting at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade came the expected questions when such a tragedy unfolds: Who was the gunman? Where [...]

Story Links CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – With the NCAA's coaching limit increase going into effect on July 1, Emily Durr and Jenna Giacone have been elevated [...]

Sports may have an offseason, but our fandom doesn’t. The Illinois Fighting Illini bestowed us with plenty of remarkable moments during the first half of 2023. Players & coaches achieved [...]

While widespread damage was caused by destructive winds of up to 80 mph, just as this line of storms was reaching its apex, a number of rotations were able to [...]

NASCAR fans have started their excitement as the street race is finally here. The race, however, is adding to massive holiday traffic headaches. The city expects a $113 million windfall, but [...]

Story Links CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Illinois Chapter of Uplifting Athletes hosted its annual Lift For Life to support the rare disease community on June 30. Lift [...]

ARTHUR, Ill. (WCIA) — The Village of Arthur is still planning to host its Fourth of July fireworks show this weekend despite drought conditions. For such a small town, Arthur [...]