Two metro-east counties were among the 15 in the state to gain population from 2020 to 2024, according to the U.S. Census ...

If private landowners don’t remove invasives alongside natural areas, species like buckthorn will persist in forest preserves ...

The Illinois EPA declared an Air Pollution Action Day in the Chicagoland area. Find out which counties are affected and what ...

The Chicago area is under an air quality alert until due to the Canadian wildfire smoke. Environmental officials said the pollutants from the smoke will be sticking around the area through at least ...

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Illinois and Wisconsin will begin to see -- and smell -- the wildfire smoke coming from the north as early as Friday ...

Tarrant County Commissioners are considering a redistricting plan that opponents say violate the Voting Rights Act and will ...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency declared an Air Pollution Action Day today in the Chicago Metropolitan ... The Action Day includes the counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Grundy ...

Launching the index for Illinois first is an effort credited to Peter O'Brien Sr., a Kennedy Forum board member and president ...

When Chandler Halderson's lies about attending college and being offered a SpaceX job were about to be exposed, prosecutors ...

A severe weather system passes through the Chicago area Sunday, bringing rain, high winds and hail to parts of the suburbs.