Yumeka Brown, Matteson village clerk and a commissioner with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, has formed an ...

An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday, a 27 per cent drop from 2023.

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.

Republicans are moving quickly to advance Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and border security funding. Here's a look at what's in and out so far.

Tens of millions of people from the Upper Midwest to the Ohio Valley are on alert as a multiday severe weather threat begins ...

April broke records for being among the wettest on record in much of southern Illinois, which experienced an extreme rain event early in the month, according to Illinois State Climatologist ...

Hasan Piker believes he was targeted because of his views. Officials called the questioning ‘routine and lawful.’ ...

The U.S. Interstate system doesn't have an I-50 or I-60 to avoid confusion with U.S. Highway 50 and 60 in certain states such ...

Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state’s firing squad execution last month. Democrat ...

White smoke poured out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in Rome on Thursday, announcing that a new pope had been chosen. Robert Prevost, an American Cardinal from the Chicago region ...