The World Music Festival’s 12 free concerts, spread out over ten days, offer curious listeners dozens of opportunities for discovery.

Some much needed, "significant" rain was on the way for the Chicago area for the first time in over three weeks.

Winter is Chicago's fastest-warming season, with temperatures now 3.5 degrees higher than they averaged in 1990. This means ...

A fatal crash involving a motorcycle and a truck closed a section of a main road in Cicero for about five hours Thursday.

Chicago resident Maurie Richie called the city and his alderman's office for help with a dying tree, but no one showed up for ...

Thursday’s 89-degree high, the 11th in a row, marks the longest late-season 80-degree or warmer spell on the books here since records began in 1871.  The 89-degree high temperature was also ...

Two seniors wonder why after they were submerged in floodwaters, they have now they have been left high and dry when there are millions available for victims like them.

New Chicago town workers will be relocated when the town moves closer to the demolition of its century-old town hall and toward the construction of a new complex.

Israel carried out one of the most intense bombardments of the past year, as warplanes launched 70 airstrikes, Lebanese security officials said. The barrage came shortly after Hezbollah’s leader ...

Carlos Magdalena, whose botanical adventures have shades of Indiana Jones, was a driving force in saving the world’s smallest water lily and finding the largest one. He has been called the ...

While we know the GDP per capita country-wise for them, let’s see why the top 10 economies from the list above became the richest in the world: Luxembourg, with its high GDP per capita and ...

Use the maps to find the legislators representing you. You can search for Illinois state senators, house representatives and Chicago alderman. The maps show the state districts and Chicago ...