“Instead of cutting funding that would limit learning and prove harmful to Illinois communities, we’re fighting for ...

A woman who has been in prison since 2002, when she pleaded guilty to a murder from a year earlier, had her sentence reduced ...

Mayor Rickey Williams Jr. is expected to swear in Barry Johnson at Tuesday night's city council meeting to take the place of ...

1934: When Brookfield Zoo opened to the public on this day, Cookie was there to greet the almost 60,000 visitors. And though the pink cockatoo was never “top banana” at the zoo, he outlived every ...

Officials have closed off swimming at beaches in at least six states due to high bacteria levels. Here's where those closures are.

A Davenport police officer, a baby and another person were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries Monday ...

The United Steelworkers union reached a deal to transfer craft workers from the idled Riverdale steel mill to Indiana Harbor ...

The future of NASCAR in Chicago is murky going into its third edition on the first weekend in July. The three-year contract ...

As thousands of NASCAR fans prepare to converge on Chicago’s lakefront, and hundreds of thousands of others anticipate ...

The Illinois Department of Public Health regularly tests the water to determine when beaches are safe to reopen.