I took a family road trip last week to southern Illinois, an area rife with legends and mystery. Along the Mississippi River a little ways upstream from Cahokia, where archaeologists believe a ...

UI’s track’s outdoor team title was one of eight Big Ten championships won by the Illini in 1951-52. Illinois’ football, ...

“The Hag is a legendary entity that’s part of the Illinois folklore. Supposedly, her name was Ollie Yarger and she was someone who lived in Hawthorne, IL in the early 1800s. She was falsely ...