A sundown town [...] is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was ‘all white’ on purpose," researchers write ...

Data showed a city in Tennessee had the highest rate of shoplifting among different U.S. cities included in the study, at ...

Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists ...

Four grade schoolers from Oak Park were among winners of the 2024 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, a statewide contest.

Ever wonder just how many cornfields are hiding in plain sight across Illinois, taking up more space than your daily worries?

The weekly drought monitor update has arrived, and as expected our entire area is now in the early stages of a drought.

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The laws on cannabis have changed in such a drastic way as to render the smell of burnt cannabis, standing alone, ...

From New York and L.A. to Chicago and Miami, the United States is home to some of the buzziest big cities in the world ... From spring to fall, you can go up the funicular to get views of Illinois, ...

Here’s the latest track of Tropical Storm Francine, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday morning and may become a ...

Albany could have weather more like Paris, Ark. Buffalo is forecast to feel like southern Illinois. This interactive map shows climate analogs for the biggest U.S. cities, based on projections of ...