Illinois

An 8-year-old Missouri girl has died after suddenly becoming "ill and then unresponsive" during a SkyWest Airlines regional flight heading to Chicago, officials say. 

A devastating fire erupted Wednesday evening at the Wabash Valley Produce facility in Farina, Illinois, resulting in the deaths of millions of chickens.

Marian Robinson – a Chicago native and mother to former first lady Michelle Obama – has died.

A woman who allegedly stole a Chicago police squad car and dragged an officer during a chaotic incident in June 2022 has been found not guilty.

The north suburban home that was made famous after being featured in the “Home Alone" film is now on the market.

In a heartwarming display of community support, residents of Chatham, Illinois, gathered to celebrate the return of second-grader Judah Collins, who has triumphed over cancer.

A game played by suburban Chicago teenagers is now drawing some very real safety concerns.

A former MTV reality star who is from the Chicago suburb of Orland Park and was wanted on child solicitation charges has been arrested in Florida after more than a year of eluding Illinois police.

A man is facing a slew of murder charges after a stabbing spree in Rockford left four people dead and seven others injured on Wednesday.

An Illinois Girl Scout has officially sold her 100,000th box of cookies!

Headliners for the four-day music extravaganza include SZA, Tyler The Creator, Blink-182, The Killers, Future, Hozier, Skrillex, and Kesha.

Chicago kicked off St. Patrick's Day weekend with the decades-old tradition of dyeing the Chicago River green. 

As measles cases tick upward, the Chicago Department of Public Health, on Tuesday, confirmed three more cases of the disease at the city’s migrant shelter in Pilsen.

Five people, including three children, were killed Monday after a school bus and semitruck collided on a highway in western Illinois, authorities said.

Just hours after a divided Chicago City Council passed a symbolic ceasefire resolution between Israel and Hamas, there was growing concern that the political action could lead to an upswing in anti-Semitism.

Illinois' election board on Tuesday kept Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the Republican’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualifies him from the presidency.

A Chicagoan braved the sub-zero wind chill last Wednesday strolling along pancake ice patches on Lake Michigan in swimming trunks.