Mayor Brandon Johnson keeps demanding that a broke Chicago Public Schools shoulder a $175 million pension payment.

Our schools have been cut to the bone and constantly asked to do more with less. But this isn’t just underinvestment. It is also extraction.

President Donald Trump federalized the D.C. police., based on the lie that crime represented a pressing federal emergency, despite declining by 26%.

Parents said they assumed a private school in an Oak Park mansion was recognized by the state. But that’s not the case. Illinois law won’t allow it.

Green or orange blobs that move across a radar map on your smartphone or the TV news are no guarantee of rain in your yard. “Rain does not fall evenly,” Campbell said. “It can fall heavily somewhere ...

A new initiative between Verizon, Chicago’s Center for Neighborhood Technology and a Michigan-based startup will deploy sensors in flood-plagued neighborhoods that will use sound waves to predict ...

We thought of that moment when we read the Chicago Park District’s fascinating new framework plan for the future of Grant Park, the 376-acre verdant space that sits betwixt the majestic buildings of ...

Homewood-Flossmoor teachers Jeanettra Watkins and Corinne Zimmerman are known for getting students excited about science.

El huracán Erin se debilitó a primeras horas del domingo a una tormenta de categoría 3 mientras se emitía un aviso de tormenta tropical para las Turcas y Caicos y fuertes ...

State officials say the changes written into the new federal law could place hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans at risk of ...

Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, 19, rose to prominence as a feisty member of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency ...

When invasive quagga mussels started to spread throughout the Great Lakes, local fishers noticed that whitefish began to ...