WAND News sat down with Deering Wednesday to learn more about her goals and how she was influenced by former Rep. Dan Caulkins.

Trump used a raucous rally yesterday on the eve of his inauguration to promise swift Day 1 action remaking the federal government, shifting federal priorities at breakneck speed and ensuring that “the ...

Paul Simon Public Policy Institute Director John Shaw, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has covered seven ...

The Polar Express that blasted into Washington for President Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural in 1985 forced the whole ...

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed, but felt they had no choice. That's what ...

A massive embezzlement scandal, orchestrated by the city’s comptroller and treasurer, Rita Crundwell, shook the community to ...

Jimmy Carter, whose official state funeral will be held Thursday in Washington, D.C., was introduced to Chicago at a South Shore church during the 1976 presidential campaign. He later returned to work ...

Pritzker described the upcoming budget as “challenging” but added that since taking office, he’s addressed a number of fiscal crises in Illinois. “We are doing the best that we can to try ...

His chances of reelection in 1980 looked impossible. And indeed, Carter ended up losing in a landslide to Ronald Reagan, with just 49 electoral votes to Reagan’s 489. So, in July 1979 ...

Ronald E. James, 93, of Columbus, passed from this life January 4th at his home. Born September 23, 1931 in Illinois, Ronald was the son of Hubert and Celia (Tibbs) James. Ronald graduated from ...

Several deaths are blamed on a winter storm that shut down interstates, caused thousands of airport delays and racked up more than 350,000 power outages from Kansas, Missouri and Illinois into ...

Northern Illinois has been formally approved as a football-only member of the Mountain West by the conference’s board of directors and school administrations. The Huskies will begin play in the ...