Edelstein News

The Rome Fiction Fest will fete Kenneth Branagh with a lifetime achievement award.

An early morning blaze reduced what was once a popular ballroom to rubble. Although The Hub, built by Bert Potter in 1938, was sold almost 40 years later, Potters family says the original ballroom had a rich history.

Fire destroyed a ballroom rich with history in Edelstein Wednesday morning. Authorities say the fire broke out about 2-45 at the Hub Ballroom.

Woke very early this morning to the fire crews working to control the blaze at the Hub.

It's a place of many memories for folks in Central Illinois and now memories are all that's left of the Hub Ballroom in Edelstein.

A more than 70-year-old central Illinois ballroom where Duke Ellington and Lawrence Welk played has been destroyed by fire.

Traffic was backed up for a while on Route-Six just after six this morning. Police received a call about motorist along the southbound lane near mile marker one.

Pierfrancesco Favino, Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer and David Pasquesi star in "Angels & Demons," from the author of "The Da Vinci Code." The new film "Angels and Demons" premieres Friday, and already many critics are putting it down.

Lili Taylor and Jena Malone essay the roles of bitchy rival mother and daughter in New Group's staging of Eugene O'Neill's 'Mourning Becomes Electra.' A New Group presentation of a play in three acts by Eugene ...

Tickets are on sale for this year's Variety Show, Imagine. The show will be performed Wednesday through Saturday, Feb.

If you want plain speaking, talk to a senior citizen. "My first reaction was 'Son of a bitch, it finally happened,'" said Judi Edelstein, volunteer receptionist at Wheeling's Pavilion Senior Center.