The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley/Fisher Middle School wrestling team won 70-24 over LeRoy on Tuesday, Jan. 28. Julian Rodriguez (90 pounds), Bentley Fields (100), Ian Rotramel (105), Kayden Fancher (112) ...

The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley school board approved the hiring of Michael Schwenk as GCMS High School’s next assistant principal and athletic director on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Schwenk replaces the ...

A Roberts family escaped their burning home unharmed Wednesday afternoon as their two dogs perished in a blaze believed to ...

I wrote a column in the Ford County Chronicle about desperate Ugandan youngsters who on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024, ...

The Duck has survived living another week in the year 2025. I was going to move into an apartment building, but then it ...

There will be no second annual Gibson City Food Truck Festival this summer. The city council voted unanimously Monday night ...

I tried to take a personality test online. Turns out, you need to have a personality for that. You also need a credit card to get your results for most of the tests. I didn’t feel the need to pay ...

Now that each has made its arguments to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, the Ford County Chronicle and Village of Loda are awaiting a determination on whether a violation of the state’s Open ...

As Paxton Main Street Director Donna Pepper spoke in a recent “Chambana Proud” podcast about her community’s efforts to revitalize its historical downtown, Janet Ellis Nelson was listening with ...

The Illinois Department of Employment Security announced Friday that the state’s unemployment rate fell one-tenth of a percentage point — to 5.2% — in December. The state’s unemployment rate was 1.1% ...

Following is a list of cases filed recently in Ford County Circuit Court: FELONIES • Kaleb Long, no age listed, of Sidney, for aggravated domestic battery, interfering with the reporting of domestic ...

Dozens of semi-trucks wait in the parking lot of the shuttered Rural King store in Rantoul on Saturday, Jan. 25, as they prepare to take part in a funeral procession in honor of Tanner Michael Adkins, ...