Growing up in the Prairie State, I had the distinct privilege of discovering dreamy small towns in Illinois. Illinois is nearly 400 miles long, and there are seemingly endless adorable small towns ...

GALENA, Ill. — After more than a decade of planning, the Jo Daviess County Historical Society has officially broken ground on a new museum in Galena. But a sudden federal funding cut has left leaders ...

World Atlas, an online geography resource company, put together a list of the best small towns in every state based on what it has to offer visitors. Chicagoland families might be surprised that ...

I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty fascinated by old, abandoned places. A state with a human history as long and storied as that of the Land of Lincoln is bound to have quite a few abandoned ...