For generations, America has been thought of as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone who worked and studied hard ...

Nearly 13 percent of the 1,350 Illinois ZIP codes at high risk of lead exposure in children are in Cook County. The 172 Cook ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is asking state lawmakers for more authority to regulate the homeowners insurance market in Illinois.  His ...

At a union hall on Chicago’s South Side, a powerful Democratic Party organization decided who to endorse in the March 17 ...

One man was killed and another man was injured Monday night in a shooting on Chicago’s Near West Side. Police said an 18-year ...

A Madison County judge has transferred to adult court the case of a 17-year-old charged in a shooting near a school bus stop ...

Phyllis Scheuer has had plenty of roles in Fieldcrest Community Unit School District 6 — from teacher and mentor to volunteer ...

A Chicago man faces multiple felonies in connection with properties being defaced on the city’s West Side. Philip Dominguez, ...

Chicago is allocating $40 million in grants to modernize seven homeless shelters. The funds aim to provide capital ...

Northbrook state Rep. Tracy Katz Muhl is running for the 10th Congressional District Democratic State Central Committeewoman ...

A Chicago woman has been charged in connection with an April road-rage incident and expressway shooting. Octavia Howleit, 24, ...

A new career training program that fuses creativity with sustainability has debuted in Rockford.  The Tad More Sustainability ...