While most incidents weren't violent, the state's busiest gambling site, Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, saw several armed ...

Living Lands & Waters is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1998 by Chad Pregracke. While living and working on the ...

Not much is left of a once-thriving, tidy little encampment tucked inside a Cook County forest preserve in Des Plaines. Even ...

Thoughtful personal recollections and empathetic reflections poured in from Catholic leaders across the Chicago area shortly ...

An Earth Day volunteer event at Orland Grasslands in Orland Park will showcase the area’s native landscape, human impact.

A sighting of a yard wild turkey in Lake Barrington and a question on a tagged largemouth bass in the Chicago River lead the ...

Seventy years ago this week, a hamburger joint named McDonald’s opened in northwest suburban Des Plaines. No one except for its Oak Park-raised owner Ray Kroc may have believed the tiny to-go place ...

his wife — who also worked for the tech conglomerate — and their three young children were among those killed when a New York City sightseeing helicopter plunged into the Hudson River on Thursday.

The skeletal remains were found on the west side of the Des Plaines River at Dam No. 1 Woods-West after a caller contacted police just after 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 6, according to the Forest ...

President Trump said he, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall discussed the need to keep Asian carp out of Lake Michigan.