A crowd enjoys Tuesday's activities during the Dave's Customer Appreciation Pig-Out in Fairbury. Organizers of Tuesday’s Customer...

Participant Jeff Curl and daughter Ellie share a laugh after completing the Grocery Grab Friday morning. Shoppers with grocery carts...

Fairbury's newest park is the Munz Nature Park, located on South First Street just north of the bridge across Indian Creek. According to...

Arthur Joseph Roy, 89, of St. Samuel Station, Quebec, passed away at his residence on June 5, 2025.  Cremation has been accorded. He will...

Purchases for the fire department were approved by the Fairbury City Council Wednesday evening. During the first regular June meeting,...

130 Years Ago June 1, 1895 The La Perl show, which gave two performances in this city Thursday, was greeted by splendid audiences. The...

Brian Thomas Bounds, 60, Fairbury, IL, passed away at 7:28 pm Saturday, May 31st, 2025 at OSF St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria. The...

Theresa Jean Reid, 59, of Fairbury, passed away at 7:56 am, May 21, 2025, at her residence. Her funeral was Wednesday, May 28, 2025, at...

Fairbury was founded in 1857 when the Peoria & Oquawka Railroad laid its tracks from Peoria east to the Indiana border. Just 15 years...

Rosemary Koehl, 73, of Forrest, passed away at 9:30 a.m. on May 31, 2025. Visitation will be held at Duffy-Pils Memorial Home, Fairbury...

Jerry E. Roberts, 78, of Fairbury, passed away at 8:56 pm on Friday, May 20th, 2025 at ARC of El Paso. Jerry was born on June 14th, 1946...

Marilyn J. Wells, 101, of Fairbury, passed away on Thursday morning, May 29, 2025, at Fairview Haven Retirement Community. Cremation...

A vocational area with a grocery store for Life Skills students at Prairie Central High School. Students with disabilities are practicing...

Todd Ward, Ray Popejoy and Jeff Abbey assemble picnic tables with CACF and Fairbury Rotary this week. New picnic tables were assembled in...

130 Years Ago May 25, 1895 Walton Bros. sold three bicycles on Wednesday, making forty for the year. Two of those sold Wednesday were to...

Many residents and visitors like to see the colorful and beautiful flowers in Fairbury's smallest park at the Locust and First Streets...

The gym inside the new Boys & Girls Club Intergenerational Center in Fairbury. The gap between the younger and older generations in the...

The 2025 Prairie Central High School Commencement Ceremony is scheduled for this Friday evening, May 23, starting at 7 p.m. in the PCHS...

Fairbury Alderman Gary Norris talks about the swimming pool Wednesday evening at City Hall. While it may not exactly feel like swimming...

130 Years Ago May 18, 1895 The board of education on Monday awarded the building of the new school house on the north side to Michael...