The Southeast Side is expected to eventually get a new green space after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cleans up the site ...

Roughly 4,800 people participated in the 25th annual Polar Plunge benefitting Special Children's Charities and Special ...

Controlling the source of the so-called forever chemicals can make the clean-up process more sustainable, according to a new ...

A teenage girl who went missing from Wisconsin and authorities said was possibly in the Waukegan or Chicago area has been ...

After yearslong litigation from residents and activists, and following recent opposition from the state of Illinois, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday it was dropping a plan to expand ...

Illinois had a record year for solar growth in 2024 and can now draw enough energy from the sun to power 930,000 homes, according to a new report. Illinois added 2.5 gigawatts of solar capacity last ...

Thousands of fearless people jumped into Lake Michigan on Sunday to help raise money for Special Olympics athletes.

The proposed expansion along the shoreline would have taken in an additional 1 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment ...

This year’s Polar Plunge Chicago raised more than a million dollars for charity and saw thousands of people brave the frigid ...

The dump — known as a confined disposal facility — was constructed in 1984 to store polluted sediment dredged from the ...

The NWS issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook in Illinois, predicting severe thunderstorms, strong gusts and high temperatures later this week.

An unusually strong area of low pressure is forecasted to quickly intensify across the Great Plains Friday, leading to a threat of severe weather in the Chicago area.