Texas Democrats hightail it to Illinois to stymie a redistricting effort. And Chicago Public Schools grapples with its fiscal crisis as a budget deadline approaches.

Walter Burnett, who represented parts of the West Side and the West Loop for 30 years on the Chicago City Council, retired ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest.

Chicago’s bungalows may be modest in size, but that doesn’t keep their owners from having grand ambitions when it comes to ...

Kristi Noem, whose office oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), visited suburban Lombard on Friday to criticize ...

Most of the funding went to organizations outside the Chicago metro area. Nonprofit outlets received 30% of the money. The ...

Any changes in the conduct of a national census, which is the biggest non-military undertaking by the federal government, would require alterations to the Census Act and approval from Congress, which ...

Spending more endowment money on taxes could also lead colleges to reduce financial aid, cutting off access to elite ...

The district's goal is to continue to provide Chicagoans with cooling options to the extent possible, even as many of its ...

News Media Corp., which owns local newspapers across five states, said it will close 14 operations in Wyoming, seven in ...

The ruling, which is likely to be appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court, endorses the effort backed by the city’s largest ...

A wide-ranging one-on-one with U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin. And Illinois wildlife just got more interesting — we explain.