Illinois state parks saw more visitors in 2024 than any point in the past 15 years, according to new data from the Illinois ...

As the red velvet curtains at the Vatican parted, a priest realized that his college pal from the South Side of Chicago that ...

Two state-run health care programs that extend Medicaid-like coverage to noncitizens may have provided significant financial ...

As news spread about the news that an American had been chosen to be the new pope, a first in the 2,000-year history of the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the American Robert Prevost, said “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a message of peace ...

Gov. JB Pritzker issued an executive order Wednesday that bars state agencies from collecting and disclosing data about ...

A Pekin man faces up to life in prison after being indicted this week by a federal grand jury for trying to entice a minor to ...