MOUNT CARROLL – Timber Lake Playhouse, the professional summer theatre of Northwest Illinois, will present Rodgers and Hammerstein’s acclaimed musical, Carousel, July 27th through August 6th at the playhouse in rural Mount Carroll.

If you come to see "Wait Until Dark," please don't ask us to walk you to your car after the show.

This second production by Augustana's new Mississippi Bend Players is a thriller. In fact, the film version of the play is ranked 10th on Bravo's "100 Scariest Movie Moments" (just behind "Night of the Living Dead"). But there are no zombies. (That was last week!)

Bipartisan legislation becomes first-in-the-nation bill ensuring children can receive costly treatment for debilitating disease under insurance plans

LOMBARD– Gov. Bruce Rauner today signed Charlie’s Law, a-first-in-the-nation bill that enables all children in Illinois to receive treatment under their insurance plans for the debilitating behavioral disease PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections).

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wrote to Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson requesting further information on Rinat Akhmetshin, the Russian-American lobbyist who was present at the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump, Jr.