Culture & History

A longtime Monett Times newspaper reporter has held the vigil annually for more than 30 years in the southwest Missouri town.

With the country’s second-largest collection of unrepatriated remains, Illinois has lagged far behind the nation. A new law has the Osage Nation hopeful there will soon be progress.

“The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century” opens with a block party and free museum admission on Saturday at the St. Louis Art Museum. The wide-ranging exhibition will run for four months.

Thousands flocked to Sedalia in central Missouri for the annual Missouri State Fair.

For a decade, Paige Brubeck and Evan Sult grew their rock duo Sleepy Kitty from a work/live space on Cherokee Street. A few years after leaving St. Louis, the band looks back with its long-awaited new album, “Blessing/Curse.”

Wednesday marks the ninth anniversary of Michael Brown Jr.’s killing by a white police officer in Ferguson. Now, local officials and community members are urging residents to elect leaders who will protect Black lives.

St. Louis Shakespeare Festival’s free production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor” travels to different parks throughout St. Louis until Aug. 27. The fast-paced production reimagines the 500-year-old comedy as a 1990s sitcom.

Severe storms and winds kept racers in the MR340, a river race from Kansas City to St. Charles, from finishing the endurance race. But, they still plan to celebrate on Friday night.

Jack LeChien, the Belleville historian and co-chairman of the Gustave Koerner House Restoration committee, had heard people speculate for decades on whether Abraham Lincoln had slept in the city during his 1856 visit. If so, where?

Last year, the Department of the Interior released a report about Federal Indian Boarding Schools in the U.S. What is their legacy in Illinois?