Education officials from five statewide organizations are pushing for fundamental changes in the way student achievement is ...

Celebratory gunfire rang out in Beirut to mark the start of a ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah to end almost 14 months of fighting.

As Illinois nears the halfway point of the fiscal year, there are dark clouds forming in the state's financial picture.

Macy's is promising its largest Thanksgiving Day parade yet, exactly 100 years after the tradition first started. Here's a ...

The Americans freed from China are Mark Swidan, a businessman from Texas, who was arrested in 2012 and accused of drug ...

For the second time in the span of seven months, then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan called up Chicago Ald. Danny ...

Among the latest health hacks to go viral on TikTok is the idea of a short, post-dinner "fart walk" to aid digestion. Turns ...

The analysis of hundreds of fossilized droppings (plus a little bit of petrified vomit) from roughly 230 million years ago ...

Tyreek Hill of the Miami Dolphins was cited for careless driving and failure to wear a seat belt in September. The citations ...

This holiday shopping season is poised to break spending records. A new survey finds people plan to spend $771 on average.

Traveling to 36 countries and 5 oceans, George Steinmetz (and his drones) take us on a food tour in his new book Feed the ...

Grab your blanket, your cocoa, your snuggler of choice – holiday movie season has arrived. Here's a rundown of the standard ...