The three candidates for Alton mayor, incumbent David Goins, Brant Walker, and Raymond Strebel, took the podium at the Alton Candidate Forum on Tuesday night at The Great Rivers Hotel. The event was ...

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Hillel Levin, author of “Submerged,” will talk about his investigation into the 1993 killing of Rayna Rison in LaPorte from ...

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Booked, a cozy independent store in Illinois, sells all kinds of books and hosts everything from D&D for teens to romance book clubs for adults.

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An Illinois mother and her 12-year-old daughter, Kaylee were motivated to start a donation of children's books in Buffalo Grove, their hometown. Now all those books are available for free at all ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...