Four grade schoolers from Oak Park were among winners of the 2024 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, a statewide contest.

A woman found dead in an Illinois cornfield in 1991 has been identified as a Chicago-area woman more than a decade after ...

Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists ...

Thousands of Democratic politicians, speakers and supporters will descend on Chicago's United Center as the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) kicks off this week in Illinois. This week's ...

Northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin could see peak leaf color in mid-October. Want to experience the red, yellow and orange tree canopy sooner? Travel farther north in late September or early ...

To help people fully embrace the joys of seeing fall foliage all over the country, SmokyMountains.com, a travel brand ...

Food insecurity is a struggle for thousands of people in Central Illinois. Now, the Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department ...

An intense solar flare could spark aurora chances across nearly half of the country late Sunday night — here’s what to know.

The campus of University of Illinois at Chicago in 2020. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share As Illinois students make the trek to college campuses this fall, it is impossible to forget the students who ...

For the past few years, a state review committee has been weighing changes to standardized testing. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin ...

For maps and directions, please visit the WIU-QC website. Macomb does not have an airport that you can fly into directly. We recommend that you use Chicago O'Hare (ORD), Chicago, IL or Quad Cities ...