MURPHYSBORO — Amanda Allen Hall meticulously plans every meal. She avoids restaurants. Spending time outdoors requires careful consideration — a painful reality for the former hiking enthusiast since ...

Area communities have plenty of celebrations on tap to mark America’s 250th birthday. Whether it is fireworks, parades, music, carnivals or meat on a stick that is your way of… ...

Jonathan Padilla thought it was a scam when he received notice that he was pre-approved to join a technician training program for an electric vehicle company. “I didn’t believe it,” the recent Truman ...

A motorcyclist was charged in connection with an accident Sunday afternoon on Interstate 355. Illinois State Police responded to an accident shortly after 3:30 p.m. Sunday on southbound I-355 at ...

The Village of Villa Park is working with Illinois Prairie Path, labor unions and two railroad museums to give new life to a piece of west suburban transit history. The Chicago Aurora and Elgin ...

Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias launched an online appointment system in September for Illinois drivers needing to come to a driver’s services facility, ostensibly to reduce wait times. The “Skip ...

The Republican primary field for the Illinois 11 th Congressional District has doubled with the addition of two new candidates vying for the opportunity to go against incumbent Democrat Bill Foster.

Nine young men are looking to take advantage of a second chance given to them by the Cook County justice system. The south suburban men, ages 18-26, charged with non-violent felony or misdemeanor ...

Many Oswego school buildings are showing signs of age and stress and district officials are considering asking voters to approve a $317 million referendum to make infrastructure fixes and other ...

A hulking concrete monolith has straddled railroad tracks east of downtown DeKalb for nearly a century, but the end has now arrived for the piece of rail history. Demolition crews last week began ...

The Addison Township Board voted Wednesday to sue former Supervisor Dennis Reboletti and three other former officials for allegedly misappropriating more than $78,000 in funds, and using part of it to ...

The Illinois Department of Transportation has offered an update on five major McHenry County projects scheduled for completion next year. The projects, part of the Rebuild Illinois capital program, ...