This year’s Grandstand lineup includes big names like David Lee Roth, Tesla, Jake Owen, and Gabby Barrett.

Over the past five years, observations have revealed a steady rise in both poult survival and nesting success.

State Senator Terri Bryant is throwing her support behind keeping the Ten Commandments monument in Jefferson County.

Bost contacted the chiefs of police for Carbondale, Mt. Vernon, Effingham, Charleston, O’Fallon and Belleville.

Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until 2021, with the exception of two years. Along the way, he developed a reputation as an all-powerful political wizard who wielded vast influence over laws affecting nearly every aspect of life in the state.

A California Man is riding in-line skates across the United States. He rolled into Carbondale Wednesday night after riding across southern Illinois all day.Eric Baldwin and his girlfriend Clementine Ruel rolled through Carbondale on Thursday on a trip across America. Eric is on inline skates and Clementine right there with him on her electric bike.This trip started as a personal challenge to skate across America. Eric has been skating all his life. After deciding that he was going to do it, he wanted to do it "for" something.

Gov. JB Pritzker appeared before a congressional committee this week. Things got testy between the Democratic governor and Republican House members over sanctuary policies.

The increase in calls was largely driven by a lack of safe housing for survivors, according to a new report from the group that operates the hotline.

The biggest increases were in Central Illinois, including Livingston, Logan and Piatt counties. Experts warn hotline contacts don't necessarily translate to an uptick in domestic violence incidents.

Lawmakers approved more than AG requested for growing workload, Trump litigation

Pete Peterson explains why a now demolished ballpark is special enough to him to be called his happy place.

Early bird registration is $50 through June 24; same-day signups are $60.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Charles Freilich, Israel's former deputy national security advisor, about the ongoing strikes taking place between Israel and Iran.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Eric Marcus about the latest season of his series Making Gay History, which explores the lives of LGBTQ people during the Nazi era.

People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today.

Today for our weekly reporter's notebook series, we talk to Kentucky Public Radio's Sylvia Goodman and Joe Sonka about their reporting on healthcare in that state.

Israel's military says the nine nuclear scientists killed played spent decades working on Iran's nuclear program.

A lot happened this week, and NPR has you covered. Catch up on the big news and culture moments you might have missed.

Minnesota Public Radio's Clay Masters reports on targeted state lawmaker shootings.

A former Minnesota House speaker and her husband were killed and a state senator and his wife were wounded in targeted shootings Saturday at their homes near Minneapolis, officials said.

Tom Hiddleston stars in the new adaptation of Stephen King's novella — which is somehow a very sweet film about the inevitable approach of death.

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, where a white supremacist killed nine worshippers a decade ago.

Organizers are accusing the president of putting on the parade as a show of dominance. The protests were peaceful, but came against the backdrop of assassinations in Minnesota.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.