The heat wave in late June was extreme in both its intensity– especially nighttime temperatures– and its duration, breaking 14 daily high and 88 daily high minimum temperature records across ...

The FEMA Flood Map Service Center offers an interactive map that allows anyone in the U.S. to enter their address and see if ...

Two lucky Illinoisans won $1 million each in the Powerball drawing on July 9, with one ticket purchased online and the other ...

Two Illinois lottery players will become millionaires after each purchased a $1 million winning Powerball ticket for ...

The severe weather risk comes as heavy rain pounded Chicago early Friday, leading to multiple crashes, flooded roads and ...

Chicago should build a new train line that provides Lincoln Yards, The 78 and adjacent neighborhoods with mass transit service.

Metropolis, Illinois, located by the Ohio River with a population of roughly 6,000 residents, makes a great road-trip pit ...

This week saw federal agents descend on a popular LA park and a Chicago museum in two spectacles of intimidation.

A number of early settlers of the Fulton County village were from the Scottish city of Dunfermline (pronounced "Done-ferm-lin ...

Former Chicago Ald. Carrie Austin is too sick to stand trial on charges that she took bribes in the form of home improvements ...