The Little Fort Film Festival is now accepting submissions for its inaugural event, a celebration of the power of ...

The DuPage Children’s Museum has been awarded a $900,000, three-year grant that will help the Naperville institution bolster ...

Genealogy is becoming an important facet of the African American Museum at England Manor to help people learn about their ancestry, so much so that museum founder Sylvia England made it part of ...

McCormick Tribune Ice Rink: 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily through Sunday, Feb. 2, at Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph St., ...

John Harmon, 78, Columbus, former editor of The Republic, died Friday, Jan. 10, in Columbus. Harmon served as editor of The Republic from 1990 to 2008.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — A hospital patient in Waukegan died Thursday after being found on the roof. Authorities responded to Vista ...

A full-scale replica of the secret annex where Anne Frank penned her famous diary has opened in New York City.

Preliminary autopsy findings show a 28-year-old patient dressed only in a medical gown and found unresponsive on the roof of a Chicago-area medical center died of hypothermia as a result ...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (CBS) -- Hundreds of people kicked off the New Year on Wednesday by taking a nice cold dip in Lake Michigan. The water temperature was just under 40 degrees along the Lake Michigan ...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WLS) -- What better way to jump into the new year than a dip in Lake Michigan. Hundreds of people woke up on New Year's Day to brave the 26th Annual Waukegan Polar Bear Plunge.

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metra train on the Union Pacific North line Thursday morning, between Waukegan and North Chicago, a Metra spokesperson confirmed. The age or identity of the ...