The Illinois Department of Public Health regularly tests the water to determine when beaches are safe to reopen.

Demand, however, appears to be fueling new housing construction across Lake County and other locations in the region. In Kane County, west of Elgin, a plan to build 900 housing units on a broad swath ...

Over a dozen beaches across the Chicagoland area are closed due to E.coli contamination and erosion, with the most closures ...

A woman who has been in prison since 2002, when she pleaded guilty to a murder from a year earlier, had her sentence reduced ...

Elevated bacteria levels have caused issues at numerous Chicago-area beaches Monday, including several closures in McHenry ...

The national SkillsUSA Championships wrapped up in Georgia Friday with high school and college winners in collision repair ...

More than 5,000 people lined the parade route for the annual American Independence Parade Sunday on Sheridan Road.

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to review whether Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's lawsuit seeking to shut down ...

The future of NASCAR in Chicago is murky going into its third edition on the first weekend in July. The three-year contract ...

Land of Lincoln Legal Aid provides free legal aid to qualifying residents in Central and Southern Illinois for certain civil ...