Somewhere along the way, politics stopped being about ideas and started being about enemies. The measure of a good policy is no longer whether it helps Americans but whether it hurts the right people ...

After six years of planning, Gibson City is ready to built its new public swimming pool. During Monday night’s meeting, the city council unanimously approved financing terms for the project with the ...

A year ago, developers pitched an aggressive timeline for the construction of a new residential subdivision on farmland just south of Ottawa Road and east of the Interstate 57 interchange on Paxton’s ...

Flanked by the Gibson City Restoration Association’s vice president, Denis Fisher, board member Terri Ashmore reaches into the tumbler to pull a ticket belonging to Cindy Elliott during the ...

The attorney for five current or former Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district students who filed lawsuits this summer alleging they were inappropriately touched by teacher and former coach Rob Pacey is ...

The Paxton-Buckley-Loda eighth-grade girls basketball team won 36-23 over Prairieview-Ogden on Tuesday. Emmalynn Shumate led PBL with 15 points, three steals, six rebounds and three assists while ...

Some familiar names, plus a couple of political newcomers, were among the first candidates to file their nominating paperwork for the March 17 Republican primary election at the Ford County Courthouse ...

PAXTON — Paxton’s Market Street Grill permanently closed on Wednesday, Oct. 22 — about one week earlier than expected. On Thursday, Oct. 16, the restaurant announced that it had made the difficult ...

As a youth, I enjoyed basketball. And I had a liability as well as an asset — daily nosebleeds. Seems I had an abundance of fine blood vessels in my nose, and when it was a little dry, it took very ...

A motion hearing has been set for 2:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, in Ford County Circuit Court for a lawsuit filed by Gibson City over a botched roofing job that caused water to leak into City Hall and the ...

A public hearing for two proposed 5-megawatt commercial solar farms just north of Gibson City was pushed back Monday night until December, giving the projects’ developer more time to provide the Ford ...

In last week’s Ford County Chronicle, columnist Alan Webber expressed his disappointment that President Donald Trump did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The deliberations of the Nobel Committee are ...