Riley O'Neil and Joe Dredge in the morning

Hey, in case you hadn't heard, there's $100 million in settlement money for Illinois residents (paid by Google) that's just waiting to be claimed--but you have to file a claim to be eligible.

Depending on your age, the name Johnny Carson either rings a big bell in your memory banks, or you kinda-sorta remember the name--but you have little to no memory of him or the 30 years he spent as host of the Tonight Show on NBC.

Over the next 4 days or so, the planet Jupiter will be at its closest point to Earth since 1963, and it looks like viewing conditions over Northern Illinois will be really first-rate for anyone who wants to take some time and get a good look.

If you've ever been looking through the craft beer section of your local liquor store and thought "There seems to be a lot of good Illinois beer in here," you observations have been validated by the Great American Beer Fest

Just to throw out a quick spoiler alert for this post. No, there are no orca whales living in Lake Michigan currently, or ever in the lake's current geography.

In September of 1963, a long-haired boy named George took a break from his band in England to vacation in central Illinois.

As a kid, I thought that money laundering like you'd see in movies and TV shows was a literal thing. Bad guys, for whatever reasons, would take money and "launder" it--and for reasons that a kid couldn't understand, it really seemed to anger members of law enforcement.