Edelstein News

Dear Fixer: Last spring, my wife and I purchased round-trip airline tickets from Mexicana Airlines to fly to a destination wedding outside Cancun.

Jefferson Middle School special education specialist Beth Bobel was honored recently as Teacher of the Year by the Illinois Council for Exceptional Children.

A book launch reception for My Helpful Healing Touch: A Guide for Empowering Children , by authors Karen Daughtry , of Evanston, and Darlene Nelson , of Chicago, will be held between 4 and 8 p.m. Oct.

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.