PHOTOS: Outlook - Live

HARRISTOWN — When John Willis noticed that a large building near their home had been sitting empty for several years, it was fitting that he w…

HERRICK — Since 2008, Steve and Leanne Clark have hosted the In Plain Air Bluegrass Musical Festival at their cabin in the wooded hills and ho…

ARTHUR — No distance is too far, no burden too heavy for Curt Carter when he is pursuing that perfect image.

 CHICAGO — When Stephanie Livingston was a teenager, she enjoyed advice columns and watching Phil Donahue on TV, but she didn’t realize at the…

DECATUR — Even at the young age of 10, Jayvion Grier of Decatur understands the meaning of commission.

DECATUR — When burglars sneak into a house and tear out plumbing pipes and electrical wires, they gain a few dollars for themselves, while oft…

When the contents of Franklin Mall were on the auction block in 2009, John Ballog, owner of Associated Office Furniture, said he had his mind …

OCONEE — Following a tradition dating back thousands of years, a group of caring farmers in the Oconee area bury their friends and families in…

PANA — In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” a gravedigger poses this question to another: “Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpente…

DECATUR — Looking at the former Franklin Mall in its current condition, one would never guess it was once was a social hub for some of Decatur…

RURAL OAKLEY — Billy Walther and Dotty have been friends for more than three-fourths of his life.

DECATUR — The Governor Oglesby Mansion won’t look much different next weekend when it reopens for the season.

TAYLORVILLE — For 18 years, patients receiving a magnetic resonance imaging scan at Taylorville Memorial Hospital were serviced by a mobile MR…

TAYLORVILLE — When Palmer Bank relocated its Taylorville office on Webster Street just down the road to the corner of Webster and Park streets…

DECATUR — "I'm sorry I missed your call; I had to take a monkey to the hospital," said the former member of the Zoo Crew at Scovill Zoo.

TAYLORVILLE - John C. Curtin was re-elected as Christian County Board chairman in November. He has been a ramrod in efforts to preserve and en…

PANA — Ken Mueller and Ronald Reagan have at least one thing in common: They both were both actors-turned-politicians.

ARGENTA — As Tracy Ferrill marketed the handmade baskets she was selling, she figured out a way to reach out to a segment of the population th…

The chief's new title is HH — "household husband."

MONTICELLO — In the last week of 1999, the Monticello Theatre Association’s Camp Creek Playhouse burned to the ground. The space, which had be…

DECATUR — There's only one place in Decatur that can boast multiple chariots, piles of semifunctional typewriters, a tombstone and a rubber ch…

Corydon “Corky” Nicholson set sail to become a career naval officer, but after four years of duty, the waters became muddied by circumstances,…

If there is a woman in Decatur more involved in community affairs than Cynthia “Cindy” Deadrick, it would have to be a combination of people w…

PANA — Marilyn Rauch, much like poet Robert Frost, encountered “two roads diverged in a wood.”

CERRO GORDO — He calls himself the diaper man, but he is not working for a company that retrieves smelly pieces of cloth from households.