PEORIA – Greater Peoria Honor Flight is dedicated to providing veterans from Central Illinois with an unforgettable day of honor in Washington, D.C., to visit service memorials. Operation Penguin, ...

A project more than a decade in the making has come to fruition. Hollywood Casino Aurora is now open, putting smiles on the faces of leaders from PENN Entertainment, owners of the property, and the ...

Area communities have plenty of celebrations on tap to mark America’s 250th birthday. Whether it is fireworks, parades, music, carnivals or meat on a stick that is your way of… ...

Two people died Sunday following a domestic incident near Yorktown mall in Lombard. Police said a homicide occurred during the overnight hours Sunday in a residential building in the Yorktown area.

A court document claims that the owner of a video gaming café chain, who is also part of the bid to put casinos in Rockford and Calumet City, has conspired to squeeze out a video gaming terminal ...

Former Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and 12 years after his release from federal prison. He died just one day after being put ...

CHICAGO — Attorneys for the now-cleared “Broadview Six” protesters are asking a federal judge to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate alleged misconduct by those in Chicago’s U.S. attorney’s ...

The Republican primary field for the Illinois 11 th Congressional District has doubled with the addition of two new candidates vying for the opportunity to go against incumbent Democrat Bill Foster.

Elgin High School alumni include scientists and scholars, business execs and artists, musicians and journalists and even a Nobel Prize winner. But until last week memories of many distinguished former ...

Lamorne Morris’ first big break came from an unlikely source at Glenbard South High School in Glen Ellyn. “I used to get kicked out of class a lot for telling too many jokes, so I was sent to ...

Residents on Rockford’s west side are feeling abandoned and betrayed after Javon Bea Hospital permanently closed its doors today on just a few hours’ notice. While sudden, the closure was not a ...

Two Chicago Archdiocesan priests have each been accused of sexually abusing a child more than 30 years ago. Rev. Henry Kricek, a retired priest who has been living and serving at St. John of the Cross ...