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

The Indianapolis Colts host the Chicago Bears in NFL Week 3 action on Sunday. The game will be shown in most of Indiana, all ...

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

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

Here's why What makes Ottawa Hills, Ohio, one of the safest and richest towns in the U.S. Ottawa Hills came in behind Chicago suburb Winnetka, Illinois, and ahead of Ridgewood, New Jersey ...

The weekly drought monitor update has arrived, and as expected our entire area is now in the early stages of a drought.

When you hear disparaging words between Wisconsin and Illinois, it's usually related to the latter state's driving. But the rift between the two states goes back way before the automobile. It might ...

The laws on cannabis have changed in such a drastic way as to render the smell of burnt cannabis, standing alone, ...

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

While the lack of affordable housing seems to be a widespread issue across many American cities, a recent U.S. News & World ...

Though it may still feel like summer outside in the Chicago area, days continue to get shorter as the seasons are changing, ...

After rumors of a proposed crossing of the Illinois Central Railroad (running north and ... Messer reported that the aforementioned businessmen and land owners who platted the town and filed the map ...