The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has issued an Air Pollution Action Day for Tuesday, July 15. Here's what to know ...

Three schoolchildren were killed and two others, including the driver, sustained serious injuries after a passenger train rammed into a school van — carrying four students — which was attempting to ...

That’s Shawnee National Forest for you—a sprawling 289,000-acre paradise tucked away in southern Illinois near Herod that somehow remains one of America’s most underrated natural wonders.

Nestled in a stately limestone mansion along Chicago’s prestigious Gold Coast, the International Museum of Surgical Science stands as a captivating time capsule of medical history that’s equal parts ...

Unhealthy air has invaded Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota early this week as a new round of wildfire smoke from Canada ...

Oversight was loosened as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before the floods, a review ...

Hundreds of "Good Trouble Lives On" protests are planned to take place on the anniversary of the death of the late civil rights icon and congressman John Lewis.

Wisconsin, Minnesota and Indiana all have air quality alerts, while Chicago's air quality currently ranks in the "unhealthy for sensitive groups" category.

Crews from multiple departments are battling a two-alarm fire in south suburban Blue Island early Monday morning. The blaze ...

There have been nine lightning fatalities in the United States this year, with one in Florida. The Sunshine State is the ...

On a small, gently rocking research boat anchored just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, I lowered a sterile plastic bottle into ...