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Join fellow Friends of WILL for a tour that combines culture and history while visiting the settings featured in your favorite WILL-TV programs.

The grand jury indictment against Aaron Schock accuses the former Illinois congressman of spending $40,000 in government funds to redecorate his Washington office - including the purchase of a $5,000 chandelier. The U.S. attorney's office in Springfield announced the 24-count, 52-page indictment on Thursday. Schock says he will fight the allegations and expose the investigation as a politically-driven witch hunt.

Get on board WILL’s one-day bus trip to Dressing Downton: Changing Fashion for Changing Times at the Driehaus Museum in Chicago! This exhibit features more than 35 costumes from Downton Abbey, surrounded by the lavish interiors of the museum. 

Downton Abbey season six, the final season, premiered in the U.S. yesterday to great acclaim. It wouldn’t look the way it does or be so historically accurate, however, if it weren’t for Alastair Bruce. The cast and crew of Downton Abbey, Masterpiece’s smash hit about the Crawley family and their servants call Bruce, the show’s historical advisor, “The Oracle” because he knows everything about the customs and protocols of the time period.