Posted: 3:36 PM The ByronFest Steering Committee is excited to announce the new ByronFest Rocks the Rock concert, just in time to celebrate ByronFest’s 25th Anniversary.
Posted: 11:02 PM A friend of a man accused of killing relatives of actress Jennifer Hudson says he saw the man with the gun authorities say was used in the murders.
Posted: 2:34 PM Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper who co-founded the seminal hip-hop group, has died at age 47.
Posted: 11:08 PM The best friend of Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's brother has testified that Jason Hudson only had one enemy.
Updated: 11:36 PM The young professionals group Ignite talks about what they are most looking forward to doing in the Forest City once the weather is nice.
Posted: 10:34 PM A forensic scientist testified that the DNA of a man accused of killing family members of actress Jennifer Hudson was not on the murder weapon.
Posted: 10:41 PM A witness in the trial of the man accused of killing members of actress Jennifer Hudson's family says he saw the defendant spying on the Hudson family's home in the summer before the murders.
Posted: 10:43 PM Members of the Chicago Police Department have offered more testimony at the trial of the man accused of killing members of actress Jennifer's Hudson family.
Posted: 9:38 PM A girlfriend of the man accused of killing members of the family of Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson says the defendant admitted to the killings hours after the shooting
Posted: 8:12 PM The ex-girlfriend of the man accused of killing Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's family has testified.
Updated: 11:28 PM After almost 40 years in the Rock n' Roll business music lovers still want Cheap Trick.
Posted: 10:49 PM Hudson spent much of the morning outside the courtroom, as prosecutors showed the photographs of Julian.
Posted: 10:47 PM The second day of proceedings has finished in the trial of the man accused of killing Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's family.
Posted: 11:04 PM Cheap Trick, Train, Night Ranger and Blue Oyster Cult will headline this year's Illinois State Fair.
Posted: 10:24 PM The sister of Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson has told jurors about discovering her slain mother's body in 2008.
Updated: 5:44 PM Rockford's most famous rock band isn't slowing down any time soon, but that doesn't mean the forward thinking Cheap Trick can't look back at all they've accomplished.
Posted: 3:05 PM Get your cow-boy hats ready, a country star is hitting that stage at this year's 29th annual "On The Waterfront" festival.
Updated: 10:59 PM `American Bandstand' host Dick Clark is dead, according to spokesman Paul Shefrin.
Updated: 11:28 PM Broadway Star Michael Cavanaugh is making a couple of stops in the Stateline today and it's all for a good cause.
Posted: 11:22 PM The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys and English indie darlings Florence and the Machine will headline this year's three-day Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago.
Posted: 11:21 PM A full jury and six alternates have been selected at the trial of a man accused of killing three members of Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's family.
Updated: 8:11 PM After the success of the 2011/2012 world tour celebrating the 35th Anniversary of Peter Frampton’s multi-platinum selling live album Frampton Comes Alive!, he is back on the road with Peter Frampton 6 Days in August: Grin & Bear It.
Posted: 10:50 PM A first full day of jury selection in the Chicago trial of the man accused of killing singer and actress Jennifer Hudson's family has ended without the seating of a full jury.
Posted: 10:44 PM Former American Idol Contestant Paris Bennett returned home to the Forest City for a special fund-raising event for the Booker Washington Center.
