Local Democratic leaders and supporters of President-elect Joe Biden were ecstatic in the face of his apparent win Saturday, but they cautioned that the work of bringing the country together remains the task at hand.

Does truth matter any more in the public square?I'm prompted to address that question by a recent analysis by Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, concerning President Donald Trump.

As word finally came Saturday after an exhausting and tense week that Joe Biden will become the 46th U.S. president, cities across the nation braced for a darker side: potential violence.

A day after Gov.

As I write these words, it is Election Day in America. In a matter of hours the polls will close and the presidential election of 2020 will be over - or not.

PEORIA - Superintendents from more than 200 high schools and grade schools in Illinois have endorsed a letter to Gov.

AVONDALE, Ariz.

CHAMPAIGN -Illinois desperately needed to notch a victory in the win column, and winless Big Ten West foe Minnesota seemed like a promising opponent.