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Working with State Rep. Jackie Haas, R-Kankakee, of the 79th District, and Sen. Patrick Joyce, D-Essex, of the 40th District, 47-year historical society member Ken Ponton aims to pass a

SPRINGFIELD – A panel of Illinois lawmakers began hearing testimony Wednesday on Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s proposals for sweeping changes in the state’s health insurance industry.

SPRINGFIELD – A panel of Illinois lawmakers began hearing testimony Wednesday on Gov. JB Pritzker’s proposals for sweeping changes in the state’s health insurance industry.

If we are to remember peasants, we need a definition. Here is an imperfect but workable one. A peasant is a person working on the land in return for a bare subsistence. Patrick Joyce’s peasants are smallholders making just enough to feed their families and pay the rent in a normal year. They are people

Patrick Joyce explores his own family history from the west of Ireland in Mayo to industrial Britain

Four Democratic Party candidates are seeking the March 19 nomination to square off with the two-term Republican State Rep. Jackie Haas for the next two-year term in the Illinois House.

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If we are to remember peasants, we need a definition. Here is an imperfect but workable one. A peasant is a person working on the land in return for a bare…

In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture.

Measures have rightly been taken to find the remains of 17 people disappeared in the Troubles. But the political heirs of the War of Independence have done little to find 60 missing more than a century