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.

Food insecurity is a struggle for thousands of people in Central Illinois. Now, the Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department ...

The Illinois Workers’ Rights Amendment is being tested as a blueprint for unscrupulous union executives to consolidate power ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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