Illinois

It appears an Illinois family just won Halloween.

The child’s relative is accused of pushing him into the lake while at Navy Pier in Chicago and then standing by as he sank.

The winners of a Mega Millions jackpot totaling $1.3 billion will receive much less than that as a lump sum payment.

Seven of the injured were in the building on the city’s West Side when the explosion occurred and one apparently was in a building across the street.

One ticket sold in Des Plaines, Illinois, matched the winning numbers, but the purchaser still hasn’t claimed it.

The Biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency Thursday, opening the door for emergency funding and accelerating vaccine distribution.

A funeral service was held Monday afternoon for the last of seven people killed by a gunman at an Independence Day parade, as family and friends gathered in suburban Chicago to remember Kevin McCarthy.

One father in Illinois is speaking out against a local waterpark after he claimed his daughter was publicly weighed and embarrassed before being turned away from a ride.

Days after a rooftop gunman killed seven people at a parade, attention has turned to how the assailant obtained multiple guns and whether the laws on Illinois books could have prevented the Independence Day massacre.

The suspect in the Highland Park, Illinois, Fourth of July parade mass shooting had two prior contacts with police, including one domestic incident in which a family member reported he said he was “going to kill everyone,” according to officials.

AR-style rifles have been used in a series of high-profile mass shootings in recent U.S. history, and officials believe it was this type of rifle used to kill 6 people and wound 30 at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, this week.

Bystanders captured the moment shots were fired at the Highland Park, Illinois Fourth of July parade on TikTok.

A home in suburban Illinois, which is almost entirely underground, sold last week after being on the market for just nine days.

A home in Illinois, which is almost entirely underground, sold last week after being on the market for just nine days.

Lincoln College, which broke ground in 1865, is one of only a handful of rural American colleges that qualify as predominantly Black institutions by the Department of Education.

An Illinois man inhaled a drill bit during a routine dental visit — and then ended up at the hospital, where doctors removed it with a rare medical procedure.

Governors and state lawmakers throughout the U.S. are floating proposals to send checks to help residents cope with soaring inflation at a time when state budgets are bursting with cash

As the omicron variant fueled a surge of COVID-19 cases in January, a registered nurse in Illinois experienced a new stress that could have prevented her from getting to work to treat patients. Maria Vargas remembers opening a letter from the Illinois Secretary of State and learning her driver’s license was about to be suspended because of an outstanding...

Illinois officials are seeking answers after the killing last week of a state child welfare worker during a home visit — the second such tragedy to occur in less than five years.

A woman has been charged with child endangerment in the August fire deaths of her five young children, who she allegedly left in a southwest Illinois apartment without adult supervision