In some ways, Thanksgiving is a tradition that unites Americans. But the classic image of the Pilgrims obscures important ...

Illinois is packed with famous landmarks that draw millions of visitors every year, but not all of them live up to the hype.

You may know Illinois for Chicago and the big-city experience. Still, some of my favorite stops in the Prairie State are ...

Dr. Nicholas Kessler and his colleagues examined the largest known marker post from the ancient North American city of Cahokia. Their study is published in PLOS One. Cahokia emerged around 1050 CE as ...

Roxana's Anthony Hardin (front), shown running in September's Granite City Invite, finished second on Saturday at the Cahokia Conference Meet at Belk Park in Wood River to lead the Shells to a second ...

Check out some of the top matchups for the second round of postseason play in Illinois and Missouri. "See ball, get ball," Terance Bills said. "Then, once I got it, I just ran." "Being out there with ...

Here's a primer for St. Louis' top bets to make noise in the Illinois and Missouri volleyball playoffs. “Just going back, taking a deep breath, resetting mentally, you know, just going back to the ...

Welcome to another edition of our new column, Education Matters. With Halloween on the horizon, we have a lot of local family-friendly events coming up, and, as always, a lot of recognitions coming ...

Thieves carried out a brazen daytime heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday morning, breaking into the famed landmark using a basket lift to force open a window, smash display cases and steal ...

Silent earthen mounds standing in the flood plains at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers are all that remain of the enormous ancient metropolis near modern-day St Louis. The US has ...

In 1940, a group of Beaumont women decided to form a social club to share their interest in the arts. Three quarters of a century later, The Art Museum of Southeast Texas is hosting “A Legacy of ...

A hidden gem of a museum with a treasure trove of fossils carefully tucked inside sits perched above Cayuga Lake. With over 7 million specimens, including a mastodon skeleton found in Upstate New York ...