The Illinois Big Tree Register is being tidied up and brings a reminder of how many champion trees are around us, including ...

Metra is considering renaming its lines in the Chicago area. The rail agency has released a survey to gauge public feedback ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies.

Chicago’s Timothy P. Sheehan put forward a congressional resolution calling for the annexation of Canada by the United States ...

Trinity Irish Dancers have been performing hundreds of times across the city each March since 1982, becoming a household name and a staple of Chicago’s Irish community.

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

If conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali is on the podium, don’t leave during intermission. The vast majority of those packing ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

The General Services Administration plans to sell hundreds of government buildings, including FBI headquarters. Use our ...

Chicago also offers a plethora of spots that focus primarily on pizza, pasta, and Italian beef. Six eateries have made their exits from the Italian food map, not a reflection of their worthiness ...