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Op-ed: Illinois judge reversed a rape verdict. The victim and her advocates didn’t stay quiet.

Quincy, the county seat of Adams County in downstate Illinois, is a quiet town. Here residents vote conservative, prize neighborliness and don’t...

Christine Ledbetter

The road to Stephen Sondheim is paved with Disney musicals. Seven years ago I bought Broadway tickets for “Aladdin” in New York to take my first...

It would take a tornado to topple the Trump 2020 signs in Downstate Illinois. Ten months after the election, the “us vs. them” thinking in west...

It was standing room only at Danville High School’s production of “Bye Bye Birdie.” Crowds are not unusual at school performances in this...