Stephanie and Ryan Burnett were perplexed. The crowd was enormous. The line snaked endlessly between buildings. Were they in the right place? As the mother and son approached ...

In 1894, a congregation was started in the red brick church at Fifth and Chestnut. Many years later, this small family of Christian followers would become Faith Church. In 1953, a groundbreaking ...

A building built in 1882 with a rare 19th-century Steere and Turner organ and many original stained-glass windows is now ...

Neighbors have raised $20,000 to reopen Greenstone Church in Pullman, which has been shuttered for years because of unpaid ...

A student at Belvidere North High School created a toy drive to give to area children in need. Hugo Nunez was inspired by his ...

McDonald’s management got tired of our loitering in the restaurant and parking lot. They hired a security guard. Those poor guys. Every one of them was nicknamed ‘Barney Fife.’” ...

A tiny church in a rural eastern North Carolina hamlet of about 400, is reaching hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, ...

U.S. government forecasters are using a relatively rare “high-risk” designation — the highest category they use — to warn ...

Early voting numbers in Rockford for the Consolidated General Election already exceed the total voter turnout for the ...

Polls for the 2025 Consolidated Election opened at 6 a.m. this morning. This includes 89 polling places in the City of Rockford and 94 polling places across Winnebago County. Today's election features ...

BELVIDERE, Ill. (WTVO) — There are three candidates on the ballot for Mayor of Belvidere and two of them shared their priorities ahead of the April 1st election. Incumbent Mayor Clint Morris was ...

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