Any ticks collected are sent to the state's public health department to be identified. The Will County Health Department ...

Construction on a project to send Lake Michigan water from Chicago to southwest suburban communities is set to begin.

Illinois lawmakers failed to pass a bill at session's end on May 31 that would give Chicago-area transit agencies the funding ...

Illinois lawmakers have passed a $55.2 billion budget for the new fiscal year, including increased taxes on tobacco products ...

In a sit-down interview with the Washington Examiner, LaHood said he’s happy with his current job representing Illinois’s ...

Illinois legislators passed a record-high $55.1 billion state budget, which includes funding for local K-12 schools, Rockford ...

WATCH: WGN Political Analyst Paul Lisnek joined Sunday’s WGN Weekend Morning News to discuss the $55.2 billion state budget ...

For many locals, Petersen’s serves as a constant in a changing world – the place they went after Little League games as children and now take their own kids after soccer practice.

For those interested in viticulture, Baxter’s Vineyards and Winery – Illinois’ oldest winery – offers tastings of locally produced wines. Their specialty fruit wines, particularly those made from ...

Air quality in some parts of the United States is worsening as smoke from dozens of wildfires in Canada travels south, pushed ...

Weather experts forecast smoky skies in Chicago this weekend as wildfire smoke from Canada migrates into the U.S. Here's the ...