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 ...

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 Chicago man has been charged in connection with a murder at a Near South Side business. Souleymane Diallo, 33, a resident of the 2700 block of South Prairie Avenue, faces charges of first-degree ...

A jury on Friday found an Edwardsville man guilty of felony charges in connection with an attack on a Glen Carbon doctor in his home. The jury found Timothy Rodgers, 40, guilty of home invasion (a ...

It’s been an open secret for almost two years that something important was buried next to the historic Haymarket Martyr’s Monument in Forest Park. On Oct. 3, archaeologists and volunteers dug up an ...

A bronze statue of Northern Illinois University’s nationally-known Siberian Husky mascot now has a permanent home outside Huskie Stadium. Diesel, who patrolled NIU football sidelines for nine years, ...

What happens when a New Yorker can’t find Mexican food to his liking in Australia? He starts a chain of fast-food restaurants. Guzman y Gomez, which just opened its fifth location in the Chicago area, ...

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 ...

Evanston native Alex Moore went from a swamp to a jungle. Moore, communications director for 9th District Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, D-Evanston, is a contestant on the upcoming season of “Survivor, ...

Zachary Christian dropped out of high school at 16 and never thought he would have to open another textbook. He had a job and didn’t feel like he needed any more schooling. Then, in 2023, at the age ...

City Cruises, operator of year-round Chicago water experiences, has announced its fall and winter lineup, offering excursions for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. Guests can ...

The newest episode of “The First Million is Always the Hardest” podcast turns the microphone around as guest host Aria Quinn interviews Bo Kemp, the show’s creator and host, for a conversation about ...