Opinion: For the past decade, Opportunity House and its continuing education program, Learning for Life, has held a public Art Show each spring featuring artwork from our talented students and staff, writes Brooke Montavon.

Cleaning up government requires diluting the authority of those who might peddle their influence.

General Assembly Democrats drafted a bill that significantly reduces financial liability to modify the 2008 Biometric Information Privacy Act.

Letter to the Editor: I wanted to send a heartfelt thank you to the DeKalb County community for their outpouring of support over the last two weeks due to the tragic death of Deputy Christina Musil, writes Sheriff Andy Sullivan.

There might be some members who could be open to the idea, but there simply aren’t nearly enough of those folks right now to cobble together a majority of 30 votes in the Senate and 60 in the House and a governor’s signature.

Government is about working for the public. Politics is about perception.

Opinion: With the weather warming up and the color of green starting to reappear everywhere, Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Krissy Johnson can’t help but be excited about upcoming spring and summer Kishwaukee Valley Wanderer events.

The so-called “Super Outbreak” of tornadoes over April 3-4, 1974, remains one of the worst tornado events in American history. Few remember that it began in Illinois.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and if the insurance companies don’t see it that way, lawmakers might force their hands.