We asked the Monticello High School Cross Country Team to reflect on their time at state. Here are their answers.

A proposal to expand the playoff field and start the season a week earlier passed via a vote of IHSA member schools, the IHSA ...

The Illinois Association of County Officials (IACO) has named Seth E. Floyd, Piatt County Circuit Clerk, the 2025 Illinois County Official of the Year. Floyd received the honor at the IACO 2025 Fall ...

Illinois Student Assistance Commission congratulates seventeen Monticello High School students for their academic excellence ...

The Voice of Democracy winner is Emily Grabarczyk, a junior at Monticello High School. Grabarczyk is the daughter of Tara and ...

Rincker credited her friend Randy Lewis for helping with the renovations “out of the goodness of his heart.” The coffee ...

My Grandma Linda, Kobe Bryant, Theodore Roosevelt. My most unforgettable brush with greatness was… Getting to watch Tiger ...

The high school football playoffs in Illinois will feature more teams when the 2026 postseason rolls around. And the regular ...

The city of Monticello has opted out of making a 1 percent sales tax permanent in Monticello on groceries. A prior ordinance ...

“It was a dream come true for me,” she said. “I jumped right back in, back to my safe place, the classroom!” Chambers is the ...

Josie Ridings, Monticello local, was among over half of Belmont University’s undergraduate students named to the fall 2025 semester Dean’s List. Approximately 55% of the University’s 6,934 undergradua ...

More than 95 percent of Monticello’s ninth-graders are on the right track, which ISBE defines as freshmen who’ve earned at least five full-year course credits and don’t have more than one semester F ...