On Saturday, Cofield, 96, hosted a book signing at Plainfield Library for her new memoir, “The Nine O’Clock Whistle,” before an audience of 100 longtime supporters and activists eager to ...

For famed civil rights activist Willa Cofield, the incident that Saturday evening stood out as an example of the racism that permeated the lives of Enfield’s Black citizens and motivated her to ...

(Rob Dicker / Daily Southtown) CHAMPAIGN — When their family moved back to Lemont after living for four years in Minnesota, brothers Judah and Justus Heeg went in different directions.

Either you know or you don’t. Of all the cool students’ houses in town, there was nothing then or now quite like the Hippie Hotel. It stood on Van Buren down in that hole off the Square ...