Charleston News

You'll want to be extra careful when driving through the Eastern Illinois University campus.

The search is on for antique tractors and small gas-powered engines, for a special event in June near Charleston.

Abraham Lincoln and Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, seated left of Lincoln, met for their fourth debate in Charleston, Ill., on Sept.

The young man who vanished Monday morning from his family's house on Naperville's far southwest side apparently took a circuitous trip of some 250 miles from Naperville to Joliet to Chicago to downstate Mattoon, before going twice to the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Naperville police said Thursday.

Although the two leading anti-piracy bills currently in the US legislature have had their progress halted, support for the measures has come from one element of the student community.

Tune-in today at 3:30 p.m. on WLS Chicago News to watch 19-year-old Anne Rozek compete for the $100,000 grand prize in the "Jeopardy!" College Championship .A Rozek is a native of Cary and a junior at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston .A This is the first time Eastern Illinois University has been represented in the College Championship.

For months, Newt Gingrich has floated the same challenge to President Barack Obama that underdogs have hurled at their political rivals for more than a century: Let's debate.

Child endangerment Michelle L. Dee, 35, of 1603 University Ave., Charleston, was arrested Jan.

As usual I am slow to get around to all the weekend's reading, but I note that Harold Holzer, in a Washington Post article on Newt's idea of Lincoln-Douglas style debates, couldn't resist this sideswipe of Lincoln: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races," ... (more)

For months, Newt Gingrich has floated the same challenge to President Obama that underdogs have hurled at their political rivals for more than a century: Let's debate.

"While Lincoln insisted that the Declaration of Independence applied to all, he also descended into bigotry, acknowledging the "physical difference" between whites and blacks.

The sale of 140 acres of woods and ravines adjacent to Fox Ridge State Park to a nature-preservation group is scheduled to close week.

Beta Iota chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta recently initiated into membership Christine Nesti of Ottawa.