BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Former LSU star Angel Reeses homecoming in the Chicago Skys WNBA exhibition opener was a smashing success. Reese had 15 points and 10 rebounds, helping the Sky to a rousing 89-62 victory over the Brazilian national team on Friday night at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Reese was smiling the [...]

Welcome to May, and happy belated Beltane! What's Beltane? Well, most folks who celebrate it nowadays call it May Day. Beltane is the ancient Druid holiday that comes on the first day of May and marks the halfway point of astronomical spring. So that means just a couple days ago, we officially reached the halfway [...]

Three people were hospitalized after a fire broke out a senior living facility Friday evening in Bolingbrook.

Conclavethe filmmay have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic votingto elect a new popehas been going on for centuries and created a whole genre of historical trivia.

MILWAUKEE (AP) Michael Busch hit his first career grand slam and Pete Crow-Armstrong added two solo shots as the Chicago Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 10-0 on Friday. This marked the first matchup of the season between the NL Central-leading Cubs and the Brewers, who won this division each of the last two seasons. Chicago took [...]

Robert Lee Fritz studied glass art at Illinois State University and became the area's first independent hot glass artist after graduating in 1974.

Update at 4:45 p.m. MATTOON, Ill. (WCIA) -- The driver of the car that hit Odd Fellow-Rebekah Home on Friday has been arrested, Mattoon Police announced. In addition, the woman who died in this incident has been identified. Officials from the Mattoon Police Department posted a news release on their Facebook page just before 4:30 [...]

Medas, had been in a Miami hospital for weeks battling severe necrotizing pancreatitis and sepsis.

He was deported in March to an El Salvador prison over a 2019 accusation that he was in the MS-13 gang.

Steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs will indefinitely idle three steel plants this summer due to sluggish demand and pricing for certain products, affecting approximately 950 workers.

Milwaukee's Pat Murphy and Chicago's Craig Counsell, who have been friends for over three decades, continue to have a strong relationship despite being rivals in the NL Central division.

The opening weekend of May will be disappointingly cool.

A Minnesota man visiting an Arkansas state park discovered a 3.81-carat brown diamond, the largest found so far this year, and named it "The Duke Diamond" after his dog.

Next fall, the EMTS certification course will be back at Marist, and it's expanding to include 40 students

A gun buyback program in Chicago has raised concerns after a .45 caliber Glock went missing and was linked to three different Chicago shootings, leading to an ongoing investigation.

While the Kentucky Derby is deemed "the most exciting two minutes in sports," it's all-day excitement for hat lovers.

West claims the dentist encouraged him to use the gas unsupervised.

Victor Santos is scheduled to plead guilty Monday to charges connected to a 2022 crash involving a Chicago school bus carrying St. Ignatius College Prep hockey players.

For Ethel Caterham, the trick to a long life and in her case, it really has been is not to argue.

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. As the temperatures rise and people spend more time outdoors, tick bites become more common.

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"To compound the issue, it looks like the person who started this whole thing just took off," a spokesperson for the Ohio DOT said.

American Airlines will be adding nonstop service to seven new destinations from Chicago O'Hare in November and December, including Curacao, St. Croix, St. Maarten, Guatemala City, San Jose, Costa Rica, and flights to Roanoke, Virginia and Akron/Canton, Ohio.

CHICAGO Another measles case has been identified in Illinois, the state's fourth case to be reported so far this year. The Illinois Department of Public Health's (IDPH) measles case count dashboard climbed to four on Friday, indicating that an additional case has been identified in the state. IDPH officials later confirmed the additional case [...]

First responders were called to the 2000 block of West Adams Street on Friday afternoon for a call of shots fired.