File photo: FBI agents (Representative image) Residents living near an ethanol plant in Peoria, Illinois, were ordered to evacuate after authorities discovered a bomb at the industrial facility, with ...
The Farnsworth House was built for Dr. Edith Farnsworth as a weekend retreat (Image Credit: William E. Dunlap via National Trust for Historic Preservation) A modernist house in Illinois came surprisin...
In Grundy County, Illinois, grain farmer John Dollinger gets yearly payments from ten wind turbines spread across his family’s 800-acre property. About a decade ago, the deal guaranteed him $10,...
Pic credit: Midwest Real Estate Data LLC In the 1970s, when energy costs were climbing, an Illinois man went underground. The earth-sheltered house he built at 508 S Jefferson Street in Armington, Ill...
When Greg Reising bought roughly 100 acres near Kinkaid Lake in southern Illinois in 1995, he was looking for a place where he could spend time outdoors and connect with wildlife. Decades later, the p...
Representative image from Canva In the 1980s, Dr. Shin Theke Kang and his wife, Tae Sue Kang, made a long-term decision to protect a piece of land in southwestern Will County, Illinois, rather than de...
Bolin, the creator of “Big Things in a Small Town”, died in January 2026 (Guinness world records photos) A small Illinois town found a new way to attract visitors when businessman Jim Bolin built a gi...
On August 26 at 11:30, roughly 75 people gathered at Cooke Park for the official ribbon-cutting, capping a years-long transformation of the former Cooke Elementary School property into a fully accessi...
Image Credit: Hudson Waters via People For many people, memories of loved ones live on through photographs or family keepsakes. For 17-year-old Hudson Waters, those memories became something he could ...
The Kestel family donated their vacant farmhouse to the New Lenox Fire Protection District. (Patch media photos) A farmhouse that had been in one family for four generations ended its long history by ...