Hundreds gathered Sunday morning under cloudy late spring skies to take part in the 68-year tradition of paddling the Des Plaines River.

Pope Leo XIV’s old community of Dolton is finding hope in his election after years of violence and corruption for the suburb south of Chicago.

Several seats for the U.S. House in the Chicago area are open as Democrats either retire or give up their seat to vie for ...

Building of the casino was stopped over an unauthorized waste hauler previously alleged to have had ties to organized crime.

Des Plaines police said a driver was injured, and also arrested, after crashing his car into a home. Police said officers responded to the 1900-block of Lee Street after getting calls about a car that ...

The Trump administration “fully supports preventing the spread of invasive carp,” the memo said. “The State of Illinois, ...

Illinois is getting set to close on property that officials want to buy to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes.

Zanies Comedy Club and the Whalen family are celebrating the seventh year of working together to raise money to support the ...

The pope's maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry in historical documents ...

Above the door of the church in the last blocks of Chicago, the Virgin Mary still stands with her arms wide open. The double doors beneath the statue’s feet are shut, but a disintegrating wooden side ...

The development would have brought a four-story, 150-unit residential building to a 4-acre vacant site at 2200 East Golf Road ...