Five of seven Kankakee School District 111 board members want Steuben kept open, but a final call awaits a Nov. 9 vote.

Organizers in Austin are seeking more decorated trunks for an October 24 Guinness record attempt.

Donors have poured more than $450,000 into the Kankakee riverfront project as planners eye Legion Park and a tougher West Riverwalk phase.

A 15-year-old was seriously hurt crossing West 133rd Avenue near a Burger King. The driver fled toward Wicker Avenue.

A sunny Sunday will warm Chicago to 62 degrees before a dry stretch sends highs toward 70 later this week.

Friday's 45 mph gusts left Lake, Porter and LaPorte county homes without power, just weeks after NIPSCO's record August blackout.

The 10,000-square-foot scare factory adds a new room this year before leaving its Peru Mall home for good.

Frederick Walls, who once challenged Nick Smith, now takes aim at a sitting state senator.

Police have not released the victim's name as detectives probe how he was fatally injured inside the South Side home.

The wounded man drove himself to a hospital after gunfire hit his vehicle near Randall and Foothill roads.

The girls fell ill during lunch at Henry O. Tanner Elementary in Grand Crossing. Detectives are now investigating.

Bolingbrook Police Chief Mike Rompa, named to the post in 2020, was set to retire after 31 years with the department.

A 21-year-old woman says she was stabbed outside Jimmy's Gentlemen's Club and rushed to a Level I trauma center.