Richard Miller, an emeritus professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said perceptions related to ...

A walker called 911 and prompted a rescue response after a windsurfer was spotted in distress on Lake Michigan near the Illinois Beach State Park in Zion Wednesday. The Beach Park Fire Department and ...

Not much has been revealed about Akers as of now, but police did say that “this does not appear to be a targeted attack,” according to the New York Post. At the time of the incident, she was ...

CHATHAM, Ill. — Residents of a small central Illinois city on Tuesday mourned the loss of three children and a teenager killed in a startling crash in which a car barreled through a building ...

As of Tuesday, the new Illinois Poet Laureate is named Mark Turcotte and this is a portion of one of his poems, the beginning stanza of “Flies Buzzing.” “Mark Turcotte’s work reflects the ...

A man was hospitalized after he fell out of his kayak into the water on Lake Michigan near Winthrop Harbor and had to be rescued by the fire department Tuesday morning. The Winthrop Harbor Fire ...

Police have released more details after a car slammed into a daycare and after-school care center in Chatham, Illinois, Monday afternoon, leaving several young children dead and multiple others ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Four people were killed after a vehicle crashed into an after-school camp in a small Illinois village on Monday, according to police. The deadly incident occurred at around 3:20 p.m. when a ...

A car’s crash into an after-school program building in central Illinois – a wreck that killed four people ages 7 to 18 and injured six other children – does not appear to have been a ...

Monday morning was a breath of fresh air for Illinois. Desperately seeking a go-to scorer to round out the roster, coach Brad Underwood and the Illini landed exactly what they were looking for in ...

A car’s crash into an after-school program building in central Illinois – a wreck that killed four people ages 7 to 18 and injured six other children – does not appear to have been a targeted attack, ...