The nonprofit FLAP minimizes publicizing ‘know-your-rights' trainings as a safeguard, so those events don’t become a target for immigration enforcement.

Welcome to Poetically Yours. Poetically Yours showcases poems by northern Illinois poets and occasionally writers from other areas. This week’s poem is written by Charles Payne.

A longstanding Rockford minister is leaving his role after almost two decades. WNIJ’s Yvonne Boose spent a few moments with him as he reflected on his time at the church.

John Gelasi knows school band can be really meaningful…“Kids tell me, 'the only reason I was able to get up and go to school this morning is because I knew I had band today,'" he said. The award-winning northern Illinois music educator on everything from the magic of learning an instrument to his previous career in actual magic. It's on a new Teachers' Lounge podcast.

Get weird with us this week. King of the Weirdos stops by to perform live and talk to us about their music.

The Lincoln Highway Heritage Festival runs this Friday-Sunday at Atwood Park in Rochelle.

The healthcare nonprofit also agree to offer reinstatement to employees fired under its policy on the vaccine

Wednesday is the first day of school at the brand-new Dr. Leroy A. Mitchell Elementary School in DeKalb. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin recently got a behind-the-scenes tour to learn more about what’s in store for this year...

Last week, President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. His new nominee to replace them is a Northern Illinois University grad. Peter Medlin reports…