Several schools across the Chicago area have announced closures, early dismissals or switches to e-learning ahead of what ...

Other key suburban races include the Aurora mayoral election, Arlington Heights’ leadership change amid the Bears stadium debate, and Dolton’s mayoral race, where Mayor Tiffany Henyard faces a federal ...

Ice is rebuilding to lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; though the forecast snow could alter conditions ...

Anticipating a lack of federal funding under the new presidential administration, Illinois has postponed construction in a ...

Pritzker appears to be taking a jab at President Trump who signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Natalie Phelps Finnie on Monday wrote in a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the state will be postponing a “property rights closing” on ...

The film “Puppy Love” is a grass-roots documentary that was shot in Marengo, IL and is directed by Gail Gilbert. The ...

A churro shop in Pilsen closed its doors yesterday. So did a Mexican grocer in Chicago Heights. The owner of several Mexican restaurants in Elgin, himself the son of immigrants, shut his business for ...

On this day 66 years ago (February 3, 1959) a plane crashed in a cornfield outside Clear Lake, Iowa. The crash unfortunately resulted in the deaths of musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Pritzker, the Chicago-area philanthropist and retired Army lieutenant colonel, says the Trump ...

CHICAGO - Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot released the findings of her investigation into alleged misconduct by Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard; an Indiana man who was fatally shot by a sheriff's ...

Tommie Coleman, 22, was arrested by Chicago police and members of the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Task Force on Wednesday in the 5700 block of North Mason Avenue.