Officials at the Northern Illinois Food Bank in Geneva are expressing relief that the government shutdown has ended and funding for the essential SNAP food assistance program is secured for the next ...

With the state transit bill passed, CTA, Metra and Pace have approved budgets without fare increases, no layoffs and some potential service expansions, especially in the suburbs. Under the Chicagoland ...

Four police officers were hurt Friday during protests at the ICE facility in Broadview. Two Broadview officers and a Cook County Sheriff’s Police officer were transported to a local hospital for ...

Rockford’s Finance and Personnel Committee has approved the city’s 2026 budget, maintaining property tax levels and lowering the general fund by $2 million from last year. Despite a state-mandated $5 ...

Looking to chart the course for growth of Illinois river communities, 15 mayors gathered Nov. 7 in Peoria for the inaugural conference of the Illinois River Cities and Towns Initiative at the Childers ...

Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias launched an online appointment system in September for Illinois drivers needing to come to a driver’s services facility, ostensibly to reduce wait times. The “Skip ...

A 19-year-old Chicago man has been charged in connection with a fatal crash in Oak Lawn. Peter Swenson was charged with felony reckless homicide, aggravated driving under the influence, and driving ...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D) will continue to be banned from receiving Holy Communion in his home diocese for his pro-choice stance. Citing church law, Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Springfield ...

As Indigenous Peoples’ Day approaches, Brookfield Zoo Chicago officials reaffirmed their acknowledgment that the zoo sits on unceeded, traditional and ancestral homeland of Indigenous people.

A group of community organizations representing neighborhoods along the South Branch of the Chicago River is looking to build a riverwalk that would go from Chinatown’s Ping Tom Memorial Park to ...

A Romeoville man died from injuries sustained Saturday morning in an accident on Interstate 55. Illinois State Police said the driver of a Honda Civic struck a Subaru SUV shortly before 1:30 a.m.

A Chicago woman is being held in Cook County Jail in connection with the death of a 2-month-old boy on the city’s Near West Side. Lauryn Shakespeare, 24, a resident of the 100 block of North Ashland ...