Made In America

Money is great but money that makes money is even better.

I remember when this Illinois town was one of the better ones in the state. Unfortunately, you won't find many trying to make that case anymore as it's now ranked among the top 10 places in America that were destroyed by outsourcing jobs.

It was another volatile day in world events that may or may not have led to some strange plane activity over both Missouri and Illinois on Wednesday. Flight patterns show that a US Air Force 'doomsday plane' turned its transponder off over Missouri then proceeded to zig zag all over parts of Illinois.

51 locations will be closing.

Don't turn it up to 11.

While out on a hike through a wooded area in northern Illinois, I came across some trees that legit had purple paint on them! I got so curious, that I had to figure out what was going on. What does it mean when you see purple paint on a tree? someone was tagging trees.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources wants us to turn our cicada frustration into unique pieces of art to be featured in a new Cicada art show this summer.

According to some recent data from Credit Card Local, a comprehensive local credit card guide, Illinois has an average of $5,166 in credit card debt.

Here are five more places Allegiant should fly to out of Rockford. In case you didn't hear the news, Allegiant just started flying direct flights from Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD) to Nashville. It's a great thing, too, because I know plenty of folks who, whether it be for a girls' weekend or something else, ended up driving to Nashville when now they can fly just as easily out of R

I almost started this by saying "everyone swears," but that's not exactly true. I should say that everyone I know and associate with swears, but I am open to the possibility that there are those who keep their language clean and neat at all times. This piece is not for them.