Canadian and Italian dignitaries marked the successful recovery of a portrait of Winston Churchill known as "The Roaring Lion ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers star reached the 50-50 milestone in his 150th game. He was already the sixth player in MLB history ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signs a bill banning the sale and manufacture of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines on the Senate ...

Law enforcement officers in Illinois cannot rely on the smell of burnt cannabis alone to justify searching a vehicle without ...

The national hospital company Steward Health Care is in bankruptcy after piling up billions of dollars in debt.

Despite a federal moratorium, there have already been thirteen state executions this year. And in the next week, five people ...

This year, some American Muslims say they feel politically homeless — not understood or welcomed by either Republicans or Democrats.

CHICAGO – A federal judge on Thursday declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked in their deliberations over whether former ...

Where there are humans, there are rats. But new research says we still have a lot to learn about our furry, often reviled, companions.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is projecting that egg prices will decrease in the coming months. But experts said that ...

EAST ST. LOUIS – A federal judge invoked images from the 1917 race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, on Thursday at the end ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about "scuba-diving" lizards, a trick to turn a mouse's skin transparent and whether finger counting helps kids' math skills.