Honey Butter Fried Chicken is bringing its beloved brand of comfort food to a new setting in September. The popular Avondale ...

An easy getaway from both Chicago and Milwaukee, this scenic park offers miles of shoreline, epic birdwatching, and the only ...

A woman was critically injured and her teen daughter was also hospitalized after a water rescue Thursday at Illinois State beach Park. Experts say the stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline has grown ...

A mother and her 14-year-old daughter were both pulled unresponsive and revived after nearly drowning in Lake Michigan at Illinois Beach State Park near Zion Thursday afternoon.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is asking an Illinois court to enforce arrest warrants against Democrats who fled to the Prairie State over GOP efforts to redraw Texas’s congressional maps.

Area fire departments, including Zion, Winthrop Harbor and Beach Park, say they’ve seen an increase in water-related calls ...

CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker emphasized his administration was closely coordinating with state and even local law enforcement to protect Texas House Democrats who fled to Illinois to stop a ...

ST. CHARLES, Ill. (WAND) - Democratic state legislators from Texas were evacuated from a suburban Chicago hotel Wednesday morning following a bomb threat.

Fire chiefs say the state still has no safety plans or funding for emergency response to water rescues at the Illinois Beach State Park near Zion, despite another person drowning in Lake Michigan.

National Geographic named a lesser-known Oregon state park among its list of state parks that deliver "awe without the crowds." Here's what to know.