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

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

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

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

Several buildings on the University of Illinois campus experienced a power outage Sunday evening. According to a ...

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

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

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

Illinois football continued to impress this past week, as another victory over a top 25 took place on Friday. The Illini ...

Shawnee Mission Northwest (Kan.) guard Keaton Wagler committed to Illinois on Wednesday. The Class of 2025 four-star prospect ...

For the past few years, a state review committee has been weighing changes to standardized testing. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin ...