Despite milder May temperatures, the spring season was still a top-10 warmest on record in many places in the Midwest, including in St. Louis, Peoria, and Paducah, according to Illinois ...

Over the past 10 years, women have held fewer than one in 10 construction jobs. Prior to 2021, fewer than 5% of new ...

Everyone deserves quality public education and transit, whether residing in the Gold Coast or Roseland, Little Village or ...

Introducing "Butkus," the Turf Tank robot leased for around $15,000 to paint every field on the University of Illinois ...

The annual all-star Shrine game pits the top Illinois high school players against one another, in benefit of the Shriners Hospitals for Children.

The Peoria Zoo’s 12-year-old reticulated giraffe, Emy, is recovering well after undergoing surgery to remove her right eye ...

Multiple tornado touchdowns have been reported by weather spotters in Illinois amid an outbreak of severe weather Wednesday.

In the Springfield metro area, about 9,600 Black people and 13,390 white people were living in poverty in 2023, according to the five-year ACS data. In the city of Springfield, about 9,000 Blacks ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The “Clean Slate” Act, which could have sealed thousands and potentially millions of nonviolent criminal records in Illinois, had bipartisan support but failed to pass in the final ...

And a University of Illinois study conducted in 2010, cited by Popular Mechanics in 2022, found the Old Farmer's Almanac only about 52% accurate — "essentially random chance." ...

And a University of Illinois study conducted in 2010, cited by Popular Mechanics in 2022, found the Old Farmer's Almanac only about 52% accurate — "essentially random chance." ...

Commencing June 20, when summer officially begins, "The heat is on!" says the Farmers' Almanac.The farmers foresee a "sultry, thunder-filled" season for Peoria and the entirety of Illinois, where ...