Illinois

[ad_1] …and it happens to be nontoxic! Happy Wednesday! This post was supposed to go up yesterday but it appears I never hit publish. Wow. REALLY killing it at life…

[ad_1] Hitting the road this summer?Here’s how gas prices in Illinois — averaging $5.86 a gallon in Cook County to $5.64 in Kane and $5.68 in Will — compare to…

[ad_1] Good morning, Chicago.Chicago Public Schools has released its proposed $9.5 billion budget for the next school year, a spending plan that’s $200 million more than this year even though…

[ad_1] Several witnesses said they saw a woman in a car swerving before she hit a bicyclist and fled the scene in the Near West Side neighborhood in April, prosecutors…

[ad_1] Family and friends describe Willard F. “Bill” Wellman as a consummate storyteller with a sharp wit who spent his long life working to improve Northwest Indiana.Wellman, 97, died June…

[ad_1] Federal prosecutors on Tuesday asked for up to 18 months in prison for ex-state Sen. Thomas Cullerton, revealing for the first time that another state senator’s recommendation helped Cullerton…

[ad_1] Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will ask voters to send her back to City Hall for a second term as head of the nation’s third-largest city, she made official Tuesday.In…

[ad_1] The union representing Starbucks workers faced unusual losses in Chicago union elections Tuesday with baristas at two out of three stores voting against unionization.All three elections, conducted by the…

[ad_1] A state review board has approved the sale of Weiss Memorial and West Suburban hospitals, after years of angst between community members and the hospitals’ current owner.The State Health…

[ad_1] Republican candidates for Congress are trying to stand out from the pack in primary races this month for a chance to take on incumbent Democrats in two closely watched…