A family-owned farm in the south suburbs of Chicago has announced that funding for a grant it received last October has been ...

The state of Illinois is seeking to dismiss a federal lawsuit alleging that its sanctuary policies for migrants interfere ...

A judge ordered a pair of landlords to pay $80,000 to tenants they had threatened to call immigration enforcement on amid a rent dispute in 2020.

Police said, shortly after 5 a.m., a pedestrian was hit by a Cook County Sheriff's squad car in the 9800 block of Milwaukee ...

A Chicago man who spent nearly three decades in prison after being convicted of murder as a teenager was fully exonerated by ...

What's so important about compost? Food waste is a pressing environmental concern in Illinois. In Cook County — and in many counties around the state — it accounts for up to 37% of landfill material.

In January, a state law changed the names of six weapon possession charges. Some advocates say that the clearer titles can ...

Members of the Indiana House of Representatives have proposed a bill to establish the Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment ...

The overwhelming majority of Evanston voters passed a referendum supporting ranked choice voting in 2022 — yet the city still ...

Eric Anderson managed wildfire risks and restored habitat through controlled burns in the Indiana Dunes National Park, which relies on fire to thrive and sprawls close to urban residential areas.

Three girls club basketball teams with local youths from Hancock and Adams County in Illinois, Lee County in Iowa and Clark ...

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Two teenagers who were found unresponsive inside a locked vehicle and subsequently pronounced dead overnight in northwest suburban Hoffman Estates have been identified, ...