High Speed Rail Alliance, a Chicago-based advocacy group, is throwing its support behind three state bills that, if passed, ...

Members of a Chicago police oversight board got an earful from retired police officers, elected officials and citizens at a ...

Are cellphones a useful tool or a distraction in the classroom? According to Gov. J.B. Pritzker, they’re a distraction, and ...

High school students generally don’t participate in drafting legislation. Jordan Henry is an exception.   A senior at the ...

Chilly, occasionally rainy weather didn’t stop Southwest Siders from celebrating Chicago’s birthday March 4 in front of St Andrew Lutheran Church — at a spot recognized as the city’s geographic center ...

Heather Mack, the former Oak Park resident sentenced to 26 years in prison for her part in the brutal murder of her mother, ...

Two women have been appointed to the Governors State University Board of Trustees. Frances Pao-Han Kao and Judith Mitchell ...

A Bloomington man was killed Saturday morning when involved in a traffic accident. The crash involving two sedans occurred ...

Chicago police are alerting delivery drivers working in the Englewood area to be on alert after two drivers were carjacked ...

A stand-alone clubhouse is in the works for the Boys & Girls Club of Aurora thanks to a Community Project Funding program ...

Ten Illinois congressional Democrats have sent a letter to the U.S. attorney general demanding that the Department of Justice ...

PEORIA – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, known to locals as the ...