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

A woman found dead in an Illinois cornfield in 1991 has been identified as a Chicago-area woman more than a decade after ...

Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists ...

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

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

Food insecurity is a struggle for thousands of people in Central Illinois. Now, the Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department has released a map to help them find the food they need. Officials put ...

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

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

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 ...

For the past few years, a state review committee has been weighing changes to standardized testing. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin ...