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

Northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin could see peak leaf color in mid-October. Want to experience the red, yellow and orange tree canopy sooner? Travel farther north in late September or early ...

Voting rights groups challenging the state congressional map want the Florida Supreme Court to reinstate a district that gave Black voters in one region the chance to elect their preferred candidate.

A map shows where in the U.S. there have been mass shootings so far this year, with California, Illinois and Alabama seeing ...

Sunny with a high of 89 °F (31.7 °C). Winds from NE to NNE at 5 to 7 mph (8 to 11.3 kph). Night - Clear. Winds from NE to ENE at 4 to 7 mph (6.4 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 57 °F ...

In the last two years, the couple has visited 18 Harvest Host sites in Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Wisconsin and several in Illinois, now their home state. “We’re batting 1,000. We’ve never had a ...

The map shows where the 57 people in the listeria outbreak lived. The deaths occurred in Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, New Mexico and South Carolina. New York has ...

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the percentage of people in the United States reporting positive ... to its current 18 percent. Illinois is just above the national ...

An intense solar flare could spark aurora chances across nearly half of the country late Sunday night -- here's what to know.

When those particles interact with oxygen and nitrogen in our atmosphere, they can cause excess energy that appears as bursts of light to us. The colors ... as far south as Illinois and Oregon ...

Savannah native and Beach High alum Antario Brown had more than 200 yards of total offense to lead Northern Illinois to an ...