The 18th of November is National Rural Health Day in the United States, which celebrates rural communities and highlights the health challenges and opportunities they face as they work to improve the ...
A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.
Sixty percent of rural Americans live in child care deserts — regions with too few licensed slots for children. In rural Illinois, that number rises to nearly 70%. Over the past decade, Illinois has ...
A new scorecard shows rural electric cooperatives in Illinois are making improvements but experts said the majority of them ...
Illinois author Cammie Corlas Quinn shares nostalgic small-town memories and inspiring stories in 'Going Home,' celebrating rural Central Illinois life.
With online shopping and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, “brick-and-mortar” stores in Illinois are struggling to survive, but dollar stores continue to be a success story. Dollar Tree, Family Dollar ...
Illinois is becoming less rural, more educated, more foreign-born, and higher-paid, according to a new analysis of migration patterns. A net loss of 460,000 residents moving to other states was ...
Earlier this summer the Democrat-controlled Illinois General Assembly passed HB 3404 — a bill that will help fund the proposed gas line, in part by allowing for a 250-percent increase to customers’ ...
“School districts have had significant success partnering with Illinois CSI at AIR, suggesting that these are strategies that rural schools nationwide can use to ensure improvement leading to student ...
Billions of federal dollars are on the line to help underserved communities get a leg up with broadband service. A project in Illinois is designed to help some rural counties take their best shot at ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — When Gretchen Weiss applied for a teaching position at Macomb Middle School in west-central Illinois more than 20 years ago, the school’s policy was to keep applications on file ...
Heather and Stephen Casner sat across from the loan officer in the fall of 2022, a stack of papers between them. The building they were trying to buy — a 21-room, one-story motel in rural Anna, ...