The Aurora native rose in the ranks from a member of the Illinois House of Representatives to the U.S. Speaker of the House.

A DeSoto man charged with bludgeoning an 8-year-old to death pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of murder with an ...

Congressional approval ratings are in the tank. By some measures this is one of the least productive sessions of Congress in ...

McLean County Circuit Judge Casey Costigan is retiring Oct. 16 after 20 years on the bench. He said court transparency has ...

People have harvested wild foods for millennia, but learning how to do it today is harder, because fewer people have those ...

This year, federal forecasters say the planet could see the strongest El Niño event on record. Here's what you need to know.

While scientists have a decent understanding of how sauna and other forms of heat exposure exercises our cardiovascular ...

The investigation has found the attacker intended to crash the plane into Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport, a person ...

Across the central U.S., more communities are passing ordinances to regulate renewable infrastructure development. A ...

Like his previous work, including Homeland Elegies, The Radiance exposes the fissures of American racial, political and economic identity.

A judicial spokesperson confirmed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had filed a claim with the High Court in London and a ...

Hastert, whose political legacy as Congress' longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he ...