Democratic State Rep. Vernon Smith, a 34-year Statehouse veteran, faces a Nov. 5 challenge from Gary Republican Ivan Ursery II for the District 14 House seat.

Big oil, and those who have made trillions from it, should pay to rebuild these communities devasted by increasingly ...

The tax increases would go to fund improvements to its preserves and the protection of more land, among other things.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promises the biggest deportation event the U.S. has ever seen if he is elected — ...

Vice President Kamala Harris is in “excellent health” and “possesses the physical and mental resiliency” required to serve as ...

Writers like Charles Stevenson Wright, William Melvin Kelley and John A. Williams should be brought back into the light.

Chicago area public health experts are concerned about a pattern of troublingly low COVID and flu vaccination rates in recent ...

The largely Latino Acero charter school network in Chicago plans to shutter seven schools, and the Chicago Teachers Union ...

TEMPTINN, an Indian fusion restaurant opening in Naperville in November, will mix Indian with Italian, Mexican and other ...

Defensive end Aidan Hubbard returned a fumble recovery for a touchdown in the fourth quarter, and Northwestern pulled away ...

Protesters instigated confrontations with police by physically surrounding a police car, and they struck officers who ...

After a dismal performance by the Chicago Blackhawks’ second-unit power play in the season opener, Taylor Hall moved to that ...