The Native American history of Illinois dates back centuries, with settlements throughout the state. The original Indigenous residents of McLean County were either the Miami or the Kaskaskian tribes.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. JOSEPH, Ill. (WTVO) — There is a trend ...

Interstate 474 in Illinois will be reduced to one lane in each direction just south of the I-74/Illinois Route 6 interchange beginning March 31 for resurfacing and reconstruction of the I-474 bridges ...

BLOOMINGTON - In the fall of 1906, McLean County resident Milo Custer spent nearly two weeks at the Kickapoo Indian reservation in northeast Kansas. His interest in the Kansas Kickapoo lay in the fact ...

UPDATE (4:47 p.m.) — The outages had been removed from Ameren Illinois’ outage map as of Sunday afternoon. KICKAPOO, Ill. (WMBD) — More than 700 customers are without power in the Kickapoo area due to ...

William Biggs work, Narrative of the Captivity of William Biggs among the Kickapoo Indians in Illinois in 1788, provides readers with a firsthand account of Biggs harrowing experiences during his ...

Fifty years ago, an event happened in Heyworth, Illinois, unlike anything that happened there before and likely to never be repeated. On Memorial Day weekend in 1970, the largest outdoor rock concert ...

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Grant "Grantsky" Jacob Bizosky, 16, of Kickapoo, Illinois, passed away peacefully, next to his family, on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois. Grant was born ...

Kickapoo - Jon A. Davis, 71, of Kickapoo, IL died, surrounded by family, on Tuesday, November 2, 2021 at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was born ...