In its second year, Chicago Botanic Garden’s artistically inclined “Lightscape” is already mostly sold out.

One woman was killed and another was injured in a shooting late Wednesday morning in Boulder Hill, officials said.

The video game industry has flourished as millions of Americans sheltered at home to quell the spread of the novel coronavirus. As new versions of gaming consoles like Xbox and PlayStation are released this week, demand for video games shows no signs of slowing down.

“It’s not best for my students, but I also want to live and be healthy," one teacher said.

PEORIA -- Two people who lived at the same long-term care facility in Peoria County have died after being infected with the virus that causes the COVID-19 illness.The deaths, women in their 60s and 90s, bring Peoria County’s total death toll to 91 and the Tri-County Area’s pandemic total to 176. Most of those deaths have occurred since Sept. 1 when all three counties combined had only...

Millennial veterans in Chicago and across the U.S. increasingly turn to VA home loans, as civilian counterparts struggle to save for a down payment.

With America suffering the coronavirus pandemic, Soldier Field officials held a small Veterans Day ceremony Wednesday, deviating from large-scale ceremonies of years past.

PEORIA -- Peoria police have arrested a man, already serving time in prison, in connection with a 2018 homicide, the department said Wednesday.Lionel L. Harris, 28, was arrested in connection with the Nov. 19, 2018, death of Daryl Keller. He remains in the Illinois Department of Corrections until he will have to return to Peoria for a court appearance.Peoria ...

Celebrating the veterans on Veterans Day in Chicagoland.

Utility workers found Takaylah’s body near East 20th Avenue and Pennsylvania Street Sept. 16, 2019, the Post-Tribune previously reported. She appeared to have been dead for two days, previous reports said.

Illinois public health officials on Wednesday reported 145 deaths related to the coronavirus, the most in a single day since late May and the first time the daily death toll has reached triple digits since early June.

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

MACKINAW -- Starting Thursday, all Deer Creek-Mackinaw High School students will undertake remote learning for most of the rest of November.The move was prompted by the COVID-19 quarantine of 26% of the in-person student body, according to Michele Jacobs, the Dee-Mack District 701 superintendent.Of 282 Dee-Mack students attending daily classes at the high school building in Mackinaw, at least five...

The storm that passed through the Peoria area Tuesday afternoon was abrupt. It ended a week-long run of unusually warm temperatures.But despite wind gusts that might have reached 70 mph in some places, damage was limited."It could have been worse, but fortunately it was not," National Weather Service meteorologist James Auten said Wednesday morning.The brunt of the storm passed through Peoria betw...

CTA Blue Line “L” service was disrupted between the Rosemont and Jefferson Park stations Wednesday morning after a train hit debris on the tracks near Harlem and derailed, according to the agency.

Here is a running list of Chicago-area bars and restaurants that have closed for economic reasons due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.

A 32-year-old woman was critically injured due to smoke inhalation after an apartment building fire early Wednesday, according to Chicago police.

The latest in an ongoing series of TrumPoems chronicling the presidency of Donald Trump.

Dahleen Glanton: Black women and Latinas are poised to start a political revolution without white women.

PEORIA — COVID-19 hasn’t stopped the Illinois Valley Fuller Center for Housing from honoring local veterans in November."I was going to cut it way back this year because of COVID," said organization founder Debbie Gaught, shortly after two veterans were honored with a brief ceremony at American Legion Post 2 in Peoria on Monday afternoon. "But we ended up doing just as many."The Fuller...

After 20 years of selling raspados--shaved ice--in Little Village, Guadalupe Perez, known as Don Lupillo, will never sell again. He died Sunday after testing positive for COVID-19.

It's not hoarding, it's charity stocking, Dahleen Glanton writes.

Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

Two weeks after Election Day and with the counting of ballots completed, Democratic U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood formally declared victory Wednesday night over Republican challenger Jim Oberweis in the west and north suburban and exurban 14th Congressional District.

The community mourns the death of a Little Village street vendor Guadalupe Perez.

African American and Latino students "have not been served well enough by remote learning," a top-ranking CPS official said.

The announcement of a $200 million fine against ComEd for corruption and details of federal subpoenas to AT&T and Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan’s office pushed the widening criminal probe encircling Madigan’s political operation into the spotlight. Here is how the saga unfolded.

Two more deaths makes a total of 23 veterans with COVID who have died in an outbreak at the Illinois Veterans' Home in LaSalle.