Illinois Gov. William Stratton, center, walks through a barrier on the new Northwest Expressway (later renamed the Kennedy ...

The SBB Research Group Foundation recognizes three Chicago-area charities as the October 2025 finalists of its monthly grant program supporting impactful nonprofits (in alphabetical order): ...

Neighbourhoods have mobilised against enforcement efforts after the city became a target of immigration crackdown.  Read more ...

The giant Christmas tree that will light up Chicago's Millennium Park this holiday season has been selected -- and it's one of the "largest" in city history.

Packed fields for Chicago-area congressional races also are shaping up, though ballot challenges will cull the list over the ...

Whether candidates make it to March 2026 primary ballots will now depend on whether their opponents challenge the validity of the thousands of signatures they submitted.

First-round results and this weekend’s second-round Illinois High School Association state football playoff matchups around ...

In what surely has to be one of the most significant first-round matchups in IHSA state football playoff history, longtime ...

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The Drake men scored a strong third-place finish under new coach Sam Read and true freshman John Moellers placed a big role.

Few places along the Mississippi River tell America s story of belief as vividly as Quincy, the river city perched on the bluffs in the westernmost point of Illinois ...

Columnist Graham Couch predicts each game of MSU's men's basketball season – Arkansas through Duke, the Big Ten and March Madness.