Elizabeth, a Chicagoan in the U.S. without legal permission and mother of three, is used to being involved in her community on the Northwest Side through volunteering at her children’s school and ...

COOK COUNTY - The Thomas family, owners of the Kakadoodle farm in Matteson, suffered a devastating loss when avian bird flu wiped out their entire flock of 3,000 hens. The highly contagious virus was ...

As avian flu outbreaks continue to hit US poultry farm s and backyard flocks, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal ...

It’s now up to the Illinois Supreme Court to decide if a recently enacted state law limiting where people can file constitutional challenges against the state ...

Bringing Cook County resources such as vaccination clinics into communities is a priority of Kisha McCaskill, the new Cook ...

Accredited investors can become the landlord of Walmart, Whole Foods or Kroger — and benefit from regular distributions ...

After nearly three months, more than 60 witnesses and a surprising turn on the stand from the defendant himself, the evidence phase of former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s corruption trial has drawn ...

Electric trucks are few and far between, but Illinois will be experiencing an uptick in these freight carriers because of 14 ...

Public reaction to the 10 finalists has been mixed, to say the least, so we turned to local design experts. They had some ...

Illinois counties are seeking to secede from Chicago and Cook County to form a new state, and Indiana has introduced a bill to create a boundary adjustment commission to consider the possibility ...

Programs partly funded by the flow of opioid settlement cash are beginning to turn the tide, experts and preliminary data ...

Faith Feeds, an interfaith and community agency response to food insecurity that concentrates on “Nourishing Our Community One Neighbor at a Time,” has announced its selection as a partner in ...