NAUVOO, Ill. – Chandler Whipple recently logged his third 1,000-mile drive from Salt Lake City to this tiny, out-of-the-way town overlooking the Mississippi River, where history and faith have forged ...

Less than two years after President Gordon B. Hinckley broke ground for the rebuilding of the Nauvoo, Illinois, temple on October 24, 1999, the temple is nearing its expected Spring of 2002 completion ...

The leading attraction in this riverfront town of 1,200 is a meticulously landscaped, historically significant, theologically momentous hole in the ground. The rectangular depression, marked with a ...

2002-04-29 04:00:00 PDT Nauvoo, Ill.-- At fundamentalist church gatherings in this bend of the Mississippi River, Rocky and Helen Hulse paint a menacing specter: legions of impeccably groomed Mormons ...

A statue of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum stands outside the Carthage Jail where the two were killed in 1844. The historic jail is still open for tours. Journal-Pilot file photo Editor’s note: ...

NAUVOO, Ill. (AP) -- Chandler Whipple recently logged his third 1,000-mile drive from Salt Lake City to this tiny, out-of-the-way town overlooking the Mississippi River, where history and faith have ...

For more than 150 years, the world headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, has been located in Salt Lake City, Utah. But for the church's ...

For one Casselton, N.D., man, a trip to see the rebuilt Nauvoo Illinois Temple brought him closer to his family roots. Todd Hendrickson, bishop of Fargo's Second Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of ...

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may think they know all about Nauvoo, the Illinois city on the banks of the Mississippi River that blossomed into their faith’s headquarters ...

QUINCY -- Two stories of local interest are featured in the recent edition of the Illinois State Historical Society's Illinois Heritage magazine.The magazine's January/February edition, titled the ...