Gun owners in Illinois must take new steps in 2026 to secure their firearms in their homes, particularly when children are present. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 8, known as the Safe Gun ...

A Harwood Heights woman died Wednesday evening in an accident on the Tri-State Tollway. Sylvia Barranco, 55, a resident of the 4400 block of North Newcastle Avenue, died in a four-vehicle accident ...

If the kitchen and hearth are the heart of a home, then Benson Stone Co. is the heartbeat of countless Rockford area households. The family-owned company, a staple of Rockford’s business landscape, ...

PEORIA – An invoice for just under $48,000 was sent to Sangamon County Administrator Brian McFadden by Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins to cover overtime hours, meals, security infrastructure and ...

A Rockford garage and adjacent fence were damaged in a fire Friday evening. The detached, single-vehicle garage at 1723 Ohio Parkway sustained damage in the blaze, which started at 11:04 p.m. Friday.

Cook County is putting more resources behind the Public Defender Immigration Unit, doubling its small staff at the start of 2026 and setting the goal of tripling it by 2027. Since 2021, the unit has ...

The Generations will perform Saturday at Durty Nellie’s in Palatine to benefit Easterseals Autism Services. Saturday’s show marks the band’s return to the venue where members celebrated the release of ...

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 ...

Thirty high schools in Cook County saw more than 95 percent of their students graduate in four years. Those numbers helped push Illinois to its highest high school graduation rate in 15 years, ...

It might seem like psychic medium Missy Nichols is literally coming out of the woodwork at the famed McPike Mansion this season. It’s been nine years since The Fortune Teller’s Cellar’s Nichols has ...

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 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 ...