Two state representatives have asked for help from the Illinois National Guard. April 26, 2010 — -- Bringing rifle toting units of the National Guard into the streets of Chicago is not the ...

SPRINGFIELD, IL -- The Illinois National Guard will be celebrating 300 years in 2023. In a news release, they state on May 9, 1723, in the Village of Kaskaskia, Diron d' Artaguiette, the Inspector ...

A little over five years ago, Maj. Gen. Richard Neely took the Illinois National Guard flag in a chain of command ceremony. On May 4, Neely, the adjutant general for Illinois and commander of the ...

It took a few years, but Adriana Schroeder dug deep and finally came up with the birth date for the Illinois National Guard. It turned out to be nearly a century before Illinois entered the Union.