President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for interior secretary told a Senate panel Thursday the U.S. can leverage development ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan’s legal team rested their case Thursday, hoping to convince jurors that ...

Staggered after one of the most destructive natural disasters in Southern California history, thousands of heartbroken ...

Having cataract surgery? Chances are it will be at a stand-alone ambulatory surgery center (ASC). Ditto for joint ...

Q: I'm a 53-year-old woman, and I've been athletic all my life. I'm in a soccer league and have a grinding pain in my right ...

A new beer garden along the first-base line leads several upgrades being made to Wintrust Field in Schaumburg before the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health care workers treating patients ...

About a million Americans a year are expected to develop dementia by 2060, roughly double today’s toll, researchers reported ...

Bird flu is being cited as the cause of the recent deaths of a Chilean flamingo and harbor seal at Lincoln Park Zoo, the zoo ...

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by bacteria called Bordetella pertussis.

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

Elgin officials say that changes in testing protocols have resulted in a higher number of homes and buildings showing ...