Forsyth News

We were both only a year or two old when our families lived across the alley from each other in the small community of Hammond, about 20 miles east of Decatur on Route 36.

This weeks Scrapbook article on pages 4 and 5 of the print edition of the Decatur Tribune is the third part of a series showing how the citys downtown area has changed during the past half century.

Some experts believe this year's rising farmland prices in central Illinois could continue for at least the next year.

By Theresa Churchill, Herald & Review, Decatur, Ill. Jan. 13--DECATUR -- Macon County hasn't exactly been inundated with proposals to provide a rural public transportation system.

He delights in dressing up in an 1860s uniform and being a Civil War re-enactor in simulated battles throughout the Midwest.