An Aurora man was sentenced to 125 years in prison for fatally shooting another man during a robbery attempt more than three years ago, authorities said. Michael E. James was convicted on nine counts ...

An air quality alert has been extended for part of the Chicago area through Thursday.The alert for McHenry, Lake, Kane, DuPage, Kendall, Grundy, Cook and Will counties in Illinois and some of southern ...

Flash flooding has been reported in Kankakee County and Northwest Indiana as storms with heavy rainfall moved through the ...

Chicago is in store for a hot and humid start to the week. Cook County, as well as areas of surrounding DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties and Northwest Indiana, were under a heat advisory ...

On Thursday morning, a man’s body — positively identified as the missing kayaker — was recovered after a person called 911 at about 5:58 a.m. The body was located in the Fox River near the Great ...

Like Kane County, the City of Madison Clerk’s Office was selected as one the top 10 election authorities in the country and served as a Center of Election Excellence,” Clerk Cunningham said.

An Elgin-area man charged with illegally possessing “hundreds of suspected explosives” inside a Kane County home made a brief court appearance Friday. Clad in jail-issued orange, David C ...