Quite depressing. Bad weather, losing sports teams and neglected cities make up the majority of the midwestern United States. The weather in the Midwest is extraordinarily inconvenient. Summers can get dangerously hot, and winters can be dangerously...

DeKALB — Meth, Greet Death, Quilt Club and Livid delivered an unbelievable night to remember Feb. 1 at the Rockness Sound Studio in Rockford in a genre-mixed show.Meth, the headlining band from Chicago, is a perfect fusion of mathcore, drone, noisecore,...

Senior Pastor Jon Hutchison of the United Methodist Church, 321 Oak St., said gambling expansion in Illinois is not a good way to raise money for the state. A gambling expansion bill caused great controversy in Illinois, leading hundreds of pastors across...

NIU has created a new position to keep the Vision 2020 initiatives President Peters announced earlier this semester on track. The new associate vice president for Institutional Planning and Sustainability is Bill Nicklas. "One of his main responsibilities...

After the Chicago-based The Hush Sound announced their hiatus, singer/songwriter Greta Morgan took to the west coast. Leaving behind the Midwest, she spent a year and a half living out her dream: studying music and immersing herself in the California...