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Illinois may be getting a new state flag, with residents able to choose from a total of 13 banner designs beginning this month.

U.S. News and World Report recently compiled a list of 25 Best Places to Live for Quality of Life, and a Midwest city clinched the top spot.

President Joe Biden on Sunday signed into law the Social Security Fairness Act, a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees

A crash involving a school bus in the Chicago suburbs Monday afternoon left one person injured, the Illinois State Police said.

The recall comes amid a rise in viruses across the country and Illinois, including flu, COVID, RSV, Strep and Norovirus.

While Northeastern Illinois was under a winter weather advisory with lake effect snow expected Monday, Washington County in downstate Illinois was under a shelter-in-place order after a major winter storm brought “life-threatening weather conditions” with snow, ice, power outages, and major travel impacts, with spin-outs and crashes....

Illinois roads were slick and slippery Monday morning as a major winter storm rolled through parts of the Midwest, with snow, freezing drizzle and ice impacting parts of the Chicago-area commute.

A major winter storm moving through Illinois and much of the Midwest was impacting parts of Northeastern Illinois Monday morning, with snow and freezing drizzle expected to continue for some as the day goes on, the NBC 5 Storm Team said.

One person died in a house fire on Sunday morning in LaPorte County, Indiana, authorities said.

McDonald’s is taking its efforts to attract money-conscious diners to another level.

Lake-effect snow will hamper drivers Monday morning

The annual celebration of the city’s dining scene, Chicago Restaurant Week, is just around the corner.

The Blue Man Group, the iconic performance group known for its shows using innovative percussion instruments while covered in blue paint, took a bow in Chicago for the final time on Sunday.