The Homewood Fire Department responded and helped get the driver out of the vehicle, police said. Authorities towed the vehicle from the water, and no one was injured.Storms moved into the Chicago ...

Around 300 million years ago, the area now known as Chicago was a vibrant landscape filled with tropical swamps, river deltas ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern's merger could streamline freight through Chicago — or sideline it. Here's what’s at stake for the rail hub.

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

The Illinois Senate attempted to pass a “rescue package” for Chicago area mass transit that would punish suburban homeowners with a new real estate transfer tax. State leaders must instead focus on ...

Rockford, the state's largest city outside of the Chicago metropolitan area, remained Illinois' fifth-largest city. From there, another Chicago suburb, Elgin, takes the reigns at the No. 6 spot ...

It’s unclear whether any tornadoes touched down in the Chicago metro, but Gary, Indiana, was hit. Then overnight, parts of the Chicago metro area got snow.

The median price of homes sold in the nine-county Chicago metro area in May was $379,900, according to Illinois Realtors. It's the highest monthly median on record and up 1.3% from the prior ...

The unemployment rate decreased in all 12 metro areas for the year ending June 2025, according to data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Illinois Department of ...

Forty Illinois local news entities operating 120 outlets are receiving $4 million in state tax credits under a new law ...