From the moment we wake up in the morning there are a trillion rules — big and little — governing our lives. But sometimes, we encounter one we just can’t abide by. In a pitched moment of ...

More people travel to Illinois than to any other state for an abortion. A program helps the small percentage who need care in ...

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About 72 years after the last game for the Rockford Peaches depicted in "A League of Their Own," women's baseball is back in ...

Tracy Dangott expects a deluge of snarky texts from friends on Thursday. The day — Aug. 8, to be exact — will mark the 20th anniversary of what’s popularly known as The Dave Matthews Band Incident. On ...

After months of struggles at Weiss Memorial Hospital, the Uptown hospital shut its doors Friday morning. Starting Saturday, Weiss will lose access to Medicare and Medicaid funding. That has forced the ...

Alexa Rice didn’t inherit her grandmother’s beauty business. But she inherited her savvy – and from her Gold Coast apartment, the millennial entrepreneur is building Beech Beauty one shiny lip gloss ...

A downstate federal judge has rejected an effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to obtain full access to Illinois ...

Her new album, “Wor$t Girl in America,” is her first to ever pop up in top spots on Billboard charts after years of hustling.

University officials say finances have taken a hit from declines in research funding and foreign student enrollment. Faculty ...

The pair had traveled from Boise for their first Lollapalooza to see Swedish pop star Zara Larsson, Charli xcx, and other ...

Chicago’s South and West Side neighborhoods grapple with the closure of seven grocery stores. An estimated 400,000 music fans ...