Every Illinois congressional seat is up for election this year, but some are more competitive than others. The big picture: ...

Wall St. Insights This election cycle, Harris and Trump campaigns are focusing their resources on a handful of key ...

A sundown town [...] is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was ‘all white’ on purpose," researchers write ...

Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists ...

According to AccuWeather’s fall foliage predictions, which map out recent and upcoming weather patterns across the United ...

Four grade schoolers from Oak Park were among winners of the 2024 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, a statewide contest.

A woman found dead in an Illinois cornfield in 1991 has been identified as a Chicago-area woman more than a decade after ...

The word "atlas," may conjure images of giant books chock full of maps and a dizzying array of facts and figures. However, ...

Ever wonder just how many cornfields are hiding in plain sight across Illinois, taking up more space than your daily worries?

Data showed a city in Tennessee had the highest rate of shoplifting among different U.S. cities included in the study, at ...

Our first round of rain has moved through Michigan. The second period of rain is southwest of Michigan and heading our way.

WGN Radio’s Dave Plier is joined by Andrea Darlas, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Media Relations & Public Affairs, to discuss all the fun fall events happening at the University of ...