The Paxton Pirates swim team won its first home meet of the 2025 season on Wednesday. The lady Pirates won 188-39 over the ...

Gibson Area Music Foundation member Cindy Farris-Morano presents a $3,000 check to Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School band ...

Four contestants will vie for the title of Miss Ford County Fair Queen during the fair’s annual queen pageant ...

Very late on the night of Saturday, May 31, Illinois House Democrats rammed through Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s record-setting ...

A lawsuit filed in Ford County Circuit Court alleges that a Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district teacher and former coach ...

Readers of this column know that for the past nine years or so, if Donald Trump said it, I was for it. It’s hard to argue ...

A former Gibson City-Melvin Sibley coach and teacher was arrested Thursday in Georgia on a warrant charging him in Ford ...

I finally got to see the make-out room 40 years later, but I still didn’t get to make out. I’m not sure I remember how, ...

Scenes for the movie “Chili Finger” were filmed in downtown Paxton on Friday. Donna Pepper, executive director of Paxton Main Street, coordinated some of the local preparations for the film shoot.

A bottlenose dolphin at a Chicago zoo gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom, in a successful birth recorded on video by zoo staff. The dolphin calf was born at ...

At its June 4 meeting, the Piper City Village Board agreed to hire the Piggush Engineering firm of Kankakee to study the replacement of water mains, water services, water meters and filtration and to ...

The Ford County Chronicle won 29 awards — nine more than its closest competitor — to claim the coveted Will Loomis Memorial Trophy, which recognizes the best large nondaily newspaper in Illinois, in ...