Hume News

The village board adopted the annual tax levy of $98,335.65 for the year beginning May 1, 2009, and ending April 30, 2010.

Main American biochemist born Nov. 13, 1893, Hume, Ill., U.S. died Oct. 23, 1986, St.

After a 90-minute tour on Thursday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin emerged from the Tamms Correctional Center, the state's only supermax prison, praising its treatment of the mentally ill as the best in the country.

Six new certified staff members have joined Amboy School District 272 for the 2009-10 school year.

A STATISTICAL method that picks out the most significant words in a book could help scholars decode ancient texts like the Voynich manuscript - or even messages from aliens.

" Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Damon T. Arnold is warning Illinoisans to avoid contact with bats as we approach the time of year when bats are the most active.

"Hey, Chicken Little. Wake up. Now, please. Guess what? The sky really is falling Chicken Little, can you hear me now?" Clearly, there's a disconnect here.

An aggresive goose hisses near the lagoon at NIU on Tuesday afternoon. Lady the border collie has done well in her nine years of chasing geese.

Local health officials say they have found mosquitoes carrying the West Nile Virus is Knox County in west-central Illinois.

A crow found in LaSalle County is the first bird to test positive for the West Nile virus in Illinois this year.

Illinois public health officials say two samples from mosquitoes in Cook County are the first in the state to test positive for West Nile virus this year.

In the developed world, there has been a steady increase in allergies, inflammatory bowel diseases and autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 Diabetes and multiple sclerosis.