A sundown town [...] is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was ‘all white’ on purpose," researchers write ...

Friday night plans are set. Find out how to watch the Illinois vs. Nebraska NCAA college football game tonight.

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

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This incentive makes it easier for developers to keep affordable housing in working-class neighborhoods around Cook County, ...

It's time to look to the nighttime sky. A partial lunar eclipse Tuesday evening will coincide with the latest full supermoon.

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