Whether it’s for a big city break or a place to live, many people wonder if they should go to Chicago or New York. If that’s ...

Three men are campaigning to be the next mayor of Metropolis. The incumbent mayor Don Canada, city alderman Chuck Short and ...

Taking the top three spots on the list were Colonial Village, Virginia; Atlantic Station, Georgia; and Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania. Other Midwest towns outside of Illinois that made the top 50 were ...

At SIU, as at other regional universities, many research projects focus on overlooked issues in their own backyards. Here ...

The Trump administration has sought to deport Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil for leading the pro-Palestinian ...

Of the 15 largest cities, only Chicago lets its mayor fill vacancies on the city council. Mayor Brandon Johnson is about to ...

Illinois elections will be held to determine a wide variety of municipal offices, and voters in Wisconsin will face massive questions at the polls.

The National Hurricane Center issued its final report on Hurricane Helene. Its death and damage tolls from Florida to the ...

The highest concentrations of undocumented immigrants in Midwest states are in cities with "sanctuary" policies.

For Ric Offerman, Minooka’s mayor, these are inescapable environmental tradeoffs to secure a multibillion-dollar investment from Equinix, Inc., a Redwood City, California-based company that operates ...