These factory jobs attracted the first wave of the Great Migration — African Americans leaving the rural South for the urban North, starting in the 1910s — as well as immigrant workers. But in the ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson appears to have been left out of a high-stakes meeting on the future of the Chicago Bears. Former Illinois U.S. Representative Adam Kinzinger says he has nothing to hide.

A new report by the union-backed Illinois Economic Policy Institute predicts more than 100,000 mostly temporary construction ...

The White Sox move on to the next round of playoffs, while the Cubs get knocked out. Plus, Bears fans are wowed by the ...

August storms knocked out power for nearly 375,000 residents in Northwest Indiana, leaving people in the dark for days. But ...

Built by a past tobacco boom, Viroqua has become synonymous with the so-called Driftless Slow movement — or intentional ...

This far southwest suburban district provides one of the few competitive races on Illinois’ heavily gerrymandered political ...

The Trump administration's moves against Illinois has elevated incumbent Kwame Raoul’s role to defender of the state’s ...

Deindustrialization hit major Midwestern cities, but not everyone recovered. The Curious Midwest series explores the ...

The last Republican comptroller ceded office a decade ago, when outgoing Democratic incumbent Susana Mendoza was first ...

The sale of the 8-by-11-inch work, titled “Alderman Merriam’s Shells” (1951), topped $1 million on Thursday, setting a record ...

An effort by Mayor Brandon Johnson’s opposition to ding him for running promotional videos produced by a semi-public agency ...