Robbins dazzled readers with the whimsy and imagination in his books, including Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

Thomas Detry was a name that was already well-known on the tracks around Brussels, Belgium, and Champaign, Illinois, before the 32-year-old made a much bigger name for himself in Phoenix over the ...

By Clay Risen Tom Robbins, whose cosmically comic novels about gargantuan-thumbed hitchhikers, stoned secret agents and mystic stockbrokers caught hold of millions of readers in the 1970s ...

University of Illinois golf great Thomas Detry won his first career PGA TOUR event after firing a 24-under 260 to dominate the WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale, beating the field by seven strokes.

It was in Tolono, a place Lincoln had visited a dozen or more times and where he had many friends, that the president-elect ...

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner talks with CBS Sports' Tom Fornelli about Illinois football before chatting with Kent Brown about his new Illini book. Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner talks with ...

Vancouver Canucks 2023 first-round pick Tom Willander added a championship title to his resume just one day after his 20th birthday. He and his Boston University Terriers defeated their arch ...

Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo tied Bob Knight's record for ... to give Izzo a tiebreaking win comes Saturday night at Illinois (8 p.m./Fox). MSU defeated the Illini, 80-78, on Jan ...

The U.S. is pulling the plug on its membership with the World Health Organization. What does that mean for Illinois?

Enough people are noticing in Illinois that some counties want to secede from the Land of Lincoln and join a state that isn’t ruled by public unions and their political yes-men. In November ...