Paris News

Cindy Anderson, an avid lifelong writer who grew up in the Paris, Ill., and attended college in Terre Haute, has recently published a novel, "Voices From the Past." The novel was published in December 2008 and is part romance, part mystery and part comedy.

Girl Scouts of Central of Illinois is hosting a trip through Europe and a few spots are still available.

The proposals keep on coming. From Crain's Chicago Business : Sedgwick Properties Development Corp., led by Marty Paris, hopes to break ground this year on the first phase of a three-tower project near Montrose Harbor that would have about 850 residences including senior housing, a full-line grocery store and fitness center and a 200-room hotel.

I'm on the Burnsides Nursing Home Guild. We used to take some of the residents up to Paris, Ill., to meet with other patients and we always took dessert and drinks.

A 1925 Bugatti Brescia Type-24 Roadster is expected to fetch up to 90,000 euros at the Retromobile auction held by Bonhams in Paris, France, on Jan.

Chelsea Vice and Todd Abu-Seir will marry Feb. 27 at Lake Ridge Christian Church in Paris, Ill.

The award-winning Northwest Symphony Orchestra will open the second concert of its 58th season with Johannes Brahms' Symphony No.

Paris, Illinois is about three hours north of Chicago and two hours away from Indianapolis.

PARIS, Ill. -- When does murder become too politically sensitive? An author and former Illinois State Police Lieutenant says it happened when two newlyweds were murdered in 1986.

Eurostar resumed its high-speed rail service linking Britain, France and Belgium on Tuesday after a three-day suspension that stranded tens of thousands of travelers and left French President Nicolas Sarkozy indignant.

State Police report that one man is dead after a single car accident near Paris, Illinois Wednesday morning.

PARIS – Edgar County Banc Shares has completed its acquisition of First National Bank of Gilman, the Paris-based company announced this week.

The United States ranks near the bottom in life expectancy among wealthy nations despite spending more than double per person on health care than the industrialized world's average, an economic group said Tuesday.

Boeing scored its first orders at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday with requests for 11 737-800 jetliners, while the United Arab Emirates military inked two defense deals with European manufacturers.

'Sing me something," says Charles Holliday as he buzzes Roger Honeywell through the stage door at the Lyric Opera of Chicago shortly before 10 a.m. Monday.

Porsche's lineage began long before its first prototype appeared in 1948. It originated with the "people's car," known as the Volkswagen Beetle, which German chancellor Adolf Hitler commissioned the Porsche design office to develop in the early 1930s.

Laura Fitzgerald, a teacher from Unity East Elementary School, talks to one of the many people who attended the Fall Education Job Fair on Wednesday.

Heidi the stray German Shepherd will get a new chance at finding a loving family, thanks to a two-state effort to by animal rescue experts, a private pilot and a Wabash Valley animal clinic.

There's a new resident in the Wabash Valley, at least for awhile. But this one comes with a furry coat, four paws and a tail, as well as a painful injury.

Over the years, the chief sommelier had forgotten they were there. And when the four bottles of 1875 Armagnac Vieux were finally unearthed from the labyrinthine wine cellar this week, they were covered in a black fungus that looked like matted cat fur.