CHICAGO — Cook County is trying to make navigating its services easier for people, regardless of what language they speak. Starting Tuesday, people who may not speak English but need help from the ...

In 1980, political activist Pat Quinn, who would later become governor, led a successful effort to change the Illinois ...

The Lincoln Park Conservatory is hosting an Earth Day event in conjunction with its EcoStewards Workday on April 26. From 9-11 a.m., volunteers can gather at the North Pond Nature Sanctuary to help ...

A Lake County man in his 20s has died after police say he crashed a motorcycle into a median and struck a sign in a northern Cook County suburb ... then struck an Illinois Department of ...

"The first person she called was her favorite teacher," Cook said. They were being held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Karnes County, Texas ... Border Protection told ...

Southern Illinois University, just 40 miles north, opened up my world ... Similar efforts are going into reigniting passion for SIU throughout Cook County, home to Chicago; near St. Louis, and in high ...

Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on ...

Pat Quinn’s Illinois Local Food ... the Evanston and Skokie library boards; Cook County; Metropolitan Water Reclamation District; the North Cook County Soil and Water Conservation District ...

The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like ...

According to ComEd's outage map, nearly 1,400 people in the Chicago area were without power as of 7:30 a.m. The majority of outages were in Cook ... Illinois state line, counties to the north ...

A person who violates the Move Over Law faces a minimum fine of $250 up to a maximum of $10,000 for a first offense. If the ...