Tom Vance News Today

Wild Columbine will perform a free concert at 2:15 p.m. Sunday at the historic Five Mile House.

Zinta Aistars speaks with Kalamazoo author Tom Vance about his new biography of Napoleon II, Francis Bonaparte.

LE MARS -- The 100-year legacy of the Parkinson musical family of Le Mars will be commemorated at 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 9, in the Music Room of the Plymouth County Historical Museum. The program...

More than 1,000 people gathered in the Loop on Saturday to rally against gun violence, while dozens of others participated in a city gun turn-in program at a St. Sabina

More than 1,000 people gathered in the Loop on Saturday to rally against gun violence, while dozens of others participated in a city gun turn-in program at a St. Sabina Church, in a day of initiative and advocacy to stop gun violence.

Thomas Martin Vance, (Tom Vance), 84, died on March 3, 2022, due to complications of Covid-19 at Atrium Health Carolina Medical Center. Tom was vaccinated and boosted but was immune-compromised

Joyce Vance, retired development director for the Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois, will be the recipient of the 2022 Woman of Distinction presented by Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois.

The Illinois Amish Heritage Center was opened to visitors this summer and will host the Harvest to Home event Friday and Saturday, Oct. 8-9.

ARCOLA — Karen Miller admits she doesn’t like change. That is why she kept an old Amish schoolhouse on her Lovington property for nearly a decade. “I’m a sentimentalist,” she said. “But I’m excited for what it will do down there.” The 100-year-old building was moved by a tractor and a team of horses on Friday to its new location at the Illinois Amish Heritage Center on Illinois 133 near Arthur. An old Amish schoolhouse is moved from a location in Lovingto...