In 2011, when then-Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law ending the death penalty in Illinois, the future pope thanked him for the move. That recently uncovered news has "delighted" and "energized" Krisanne ...

Gov. JB Pritzker embarked on his third gubernatorial campaign Thursday, with the prospect of a presidential run looming in the background. “I ran for governor in 2018 to change our story. I ran ...

The governor has stops scheduled across the state Thursday, including Rockford, Peoria and Springfield.

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

A grant from the Illinois State Historic Records Advisory Board enabled the digitization of two Civil War-era diaries now available for online research on CARLI Digital Collections.

The visit will take place relatively close to the future site of a monument commemorating the 29th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, the only regiment of black troops formed in Illinois during ...

The First Shots of Civil War At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, a signal shell from Fort Johnson exploded over Fort Sumter. Virginia politician Edmund Ruffin, a 67-year-old who came to Charleston for ...

Horner then easily defeated former governor Len Small in November to become only the third Democratic governor of Illinois since the Civil War.

Civil War veterans from Edwardsville Post 461 gathered for a historic 1912 portrait on the library steps.

After the war, Carter farmed in Louisiana, married Henrietta Tompkins in 1870, and settled near Edgefield, South Carolina, where he died in March 1884. In Edgefield’s First Baptist Church Cemetery, ...

Former Illinois Governor George Ryan has died at the age of 91. He served prison time for federal corruption charges.