The museum is renovating a historic building at the corner of Exchange and State Streets, creating over 14,000 square feet of ...

The Freeport Public Library has a separate tax levy and the amount to be raised from that has increased slightly to help fund ...

Some might assume that birding is only for hikers that go deep into the wilderness to find the rarest birds. But some ...

As SNAP benefits face partial withholding, local community leaders are stepping up to support food pantries in Machesney Park ...

FREEPORT, Ill. -- A man says he was racially profiled when he was arrested by police as he walked outside a northern Illinois hospital with an attached IV. Freeport police on June 9 arrested Shaquille ...

Thousands protested in Rockford, Illinois, as part of a nationwide demonstration against the Trump administration. Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, a U.S. Senate candidate, spoke at the Rockford rally, ...

“It looks like the Natural Land Institute’s Legacy Tree Program has found yet another Illinois state champion tree: a rare American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in Freeport,” said Alan Branhagen, ...