Illinois (22-6, 13-4 Big Ten) has stumbled through February the way you stumble down an icy driveway: You’re technically ...

Who has the best pitching rotation in baseball? Before the first pitch is thrown in the 2026 Major League Baseball […] ...

Even though the Illinois Department of Corrections has been under a consent decree since 2019, the state continues to fail to ...

Wake up on Lake Michigan and explore beaches, dunes, forest trails, marinas, and rare wetlands… all just minutes from this ...

The battle between Indiana and Illinois over which state will be the home of the new Chicago Bears stadium continues to rage, and Rose Schmidt has the latest lay of the land. Thursday will be perhaps ...

The Chicago Bears finally did the thing Chicago fans have begged for since the ‘85 SuperBowl season – they built a real ...

The Arizona Diamondbacks see a way for Merrill Kelly to take the ball sometime in the first turn through the starting ...

The Fighting Illini star has ascended toward the top of a historically talented freshman class.

The U.S. is "accelerating, not decelerating" war on Iran, Hegseth says, as strikes intensify in the region and reach 1,000 miles away.

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are booming, and so is a fight among regulators, lawmakers, and advocates over ...

Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or asmussen@news-gazette.com.

Instead of distancing themselves from the injury woes that significantly limited them the past two seasons, the Braves started Spring Training by revealing Spencer Schwellenbach will miss at least the ...