Sheena Lawrick has raised over $20,000 for Memorial Sloan Kettering after son Gus, now 6, kept his sight following retinoblastoma treatment.

The Rockford nonprofit moved into a renovated 25,706-square-foot building on East State Street after 35 years on North Main.

A seven-level community altar and mock tombs headline ALMAS' free Naperville celebration this Sunday.

A Jefferson Park bride-to-be unboxed the wrong gown and uncovered a decade-old mix-up tied to a bride who died in 2009.

The Nov. 5 session follows a summer of tornadoes and a derecho that knocked out power to 300,000-plus NIPSCO customers for weeks.

A new NORC poll finds grocery and housing costs are squeezing Chicago households, with South and West Side families hit hardest.

Zachary Pruss started running tribute miles at 14 for Running 4 Heroes. Braidwood's council just gave him an honorary proclamation.

The bronze monument to labor icon Mother Jones honors an Irish-born Chicagoan who fought child labor and led the 1903 March of the Mill Children.

Mariachi, piñatas and a community ofrenda mark Highland Park's weeklong tribute, now spilling into the Ravinia District.

A sociable orange stray charged onto Virgil Wiebe’s foot outside O’Hare, and now the St. Paul professor can’t stop gushing about him.

More than 60 downtown Batavia businesses handed out candy as BatFest drew a crowd Batavia MainStreet called its biggest event of the year.

Ryan McCarron, 6, greets every visitor to his family's Silverside Drive display, now raising cash for Special Olympics Illinois.

A former South Side motel is being converted into 26 private units for homeless young adults.