The Prairie Central School District is expected to use information from the results of Tuesday’s failed referendum question to reassess...

Members of the Fairbury City Council approved a traffic amendment to the Municipal Code Book during Wednesday’s regular meeting at City...

130 Years Ago November 3, 1894 A roller skating club has been organized in town with about twenty members. They will use Mapel's Hall....

The question for voters in the Prairie Central district was voted down, based on unofficial election results from late Tuesday. The no...

Emergency personnel, local government officials and community volunteers gathered at the Edelman warehouse in Fairbury Monday night for a...

Voters in the Prairie Central School District will consider a proposition Tuesday to issue $45,000,000 in school building bonds to build...

The first Fairbury hospital was started in 1911 by two nurses who were classmates at the Sanitarium Training School in Hinsdale,...

Ronald John Mueller Sr., 87, Forrest, died at 12:55 PM Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at his daughter’s home in Bastrop, TX. Funeral services...

Ellen Magee, 95, Fairbury, died October 31, 2024 at Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac. Her Funeral Mass will be 10:00 am Monday, November 4,...

The Fairbury Rotary Club presented a check to representatives from the Cropsey Area Community Fund during a social gathering last week at...

The Fairbury Community Food Pantry is holding an all-town Thanksgiving Food Drive this Saturday, Nov. 2 starting at 9 a.m. They would...

130 Years Ago October 27, 1894 A. B. Carrithers, brother of Attorney Carrithers, of this place, and a telegraph operator at 47th street,...

The IHSA football playoff field has been set and Prairie Central travels up to Byron in a first-round playoff game Friday evening at 7...

For about 100 years, privies or outhouses were built at every home in Fairbury and on each farm. In her Fairbury history book titled...

It was another successful National FFA Convention for Prairie Central once again. Hannah Miller was the national champion in the area of...

140 Years Ago October 6, 1884 Last Saturday morning at 1:45 the alarm of fire was sounded by Officer Redd. Hardly was it sounded before...

Cemeteries are treasure troves of information about the past. Family tree researchers rely on the information engraved on the gravestones...

Several members of the public appeared during Thursday’s regular meeting of the Prairie Central Board of Education in Fairbury to voice...

Leonard J. Roth, Fairbury, 87 died at 8:20am Friday, October 18, 2024 at Fairview Haven Retirement Home, Fairbury. His funeral service...

A short Finance Committee meeting was held before the regular Fairbury City Council meeting this week. An auditor from MCK CPAs &...