Monticello News

The Saturday lineup for this weekend's BOB Stock free music festival at Riverside Park has changed due to a scheduling problem with a previous engagement involving one of the bands.

Stanley Richard Bennett, 69, of Clinton, Ill., formerly of Lebanon, died Saturday, May 2, 2009, at LeRoy Manor in LeRoy, Ill.

Illinois has a growing need for agricultural education teachers, and now new, innovative opportunities are available to attract more students to teaching careers, including the new Web site, "Inspiring Minds to Grow" at http://teachag.net/ . "More than 60 openings for agriculture teachers in both rural and urban settings were available in 2007-08 ...

Purdue freshman basketball player Lewis Jackson faces drug and alcohol charges after a traffic stop outside his hometown of Decatur, Ill.

Virginia bluebells are partial-shade lovers that bloom in April, forming carpetlike masses when in flower.

MONTICELLO – A new stop sign could be on its way to the corner of Washington and Independence streets in Monticello.

Here are a few options: the village could get rid of the police department and depend on Douglas and Piatt county deputies, it could expand to 24/7 coverage or it could scale back the coverage to save money.

The following incidents were listed among official reports of the Oak Park Police Department.

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According to the Pantagraph , Abraham Lincoln, whose bicentennial will be celebrated later this week was kind of a cut-up. Few people who dine on cheeseburgers at the Dairy Queen know Abraham Lincoln almost ...

A Humboldt Park man is dead almost eight months after being deliberately struck by a vehicle in a West Side crash that left five other people hospitalized, authorities said.

Lincoln School in Ottawa will once again compete in a friendly rivalry with Lincoln School in Monticello to see who can collect the most canned goods for their respective food pantries in honor of Abraham ...

The Antenna Applications Symposium is held annually at the Retreat Center in Robert Allerton Park, a century-old Georgian mansion just outside of Monticello, IL .

Herald & Review/Stephen Haas Tuscola's Rachael Brewer heads for the basket as Ridgeview's Sarah Butler guards during game three of the Monticello Sages Holiday Hoopla Friday, Dec.

The original idea was for Jennifer Courson to operate a thrift store to raise money for a shelter for women and children in the same century-old brick building on the small town's main drag.

A new salon featuring Paul Mitchell products has opened in downtown Decatur. Fringe at 143 E. Prairie Ave.

When 10-year-old Shelby Graham was called out of her classroom by her teacher, she was not expecting to receive a commendation.