Decatur Public Library will host a night of celebration July 8 for America's 250th birthday, aiming to educate people on the Declaration of Independence's history and the people who made it ...

Young artists in Decatur will have a chance to see their design featured on a free t-shirt for the 2026 National Night Out ...

Amid dangerously high temperatures pushing heat indices into the hundreds, local officials are urging Chicagoans to stay safe ...

As dangerously high temperatures push heat indices into the hundreds, extreme heat warning issued through 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Dreams don’t have to be expensive, though modern life often tries to convince us otherwise. Decatur, Illinois is where ...

The Meigs-Decatur Public Library has officially welcomed a new addition thanks to the efforts of their friends of the library ...

Positioned two hours south of Chicago’s wallet-draining prices and three hours northeast of St. Louis, Decatur occupies prime ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias will temporarily move DMV services in Charleston to the city's public library ...

The Vernon Area Public Library District in Lincolnshire will use a $75,150 state grant to help keep up with the cost of e-books and other digital resources, officials said. The funding is from the ...

State officials announced more than $27 million in library funding, including grants for infrastructure, school resources and ...

State Rep. Dan Howell (R-Cleveland) has announced that the Meigs-Decatur Friends of the Library has received a $14,776 Training Opportunities for Public Libraries (TOP) Grant to support broadband-rela ...

Saeed Jones, the cultural critic, poet, memoirist and former BuzzFeed executive editor, will deliver the Decatur Book Festival’s opening keynote on Oct. 3. Angie Thomas, bestselling author of young ...