Child welfare experts have long touted the benefits of foster children staying with kin. Advocates say those arrangements ...

Beginning New Year’s Day, Illinois workers making minimum wage will see wages rise by $1 and tipped workers will see their ...

With one in five Chicagoans facing food insecurity, residents are working to feed their own with grassroots efforts led by ...

We look back at the biggest stories of the year. Michael Madigan’s landmark corruption trial. The city gets a budget — eventually. And the CPS CEO gets a pink slip.

The primary reason rats continue to survive and thrive in places like Chicago is because humans provide an endless food buffet.

Study after study shows incarcerated education helps do what citizens and policymakers alike say they want: keep people from committing more crimes. However, getting education for many people behind ...

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The measure must clear the full Senate in the first week of January to reach Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk, otherwise it must go through the entire legislative process again after a new General Assembly ...

The Chicago Board of Education unanimously voted to fire CEO Pedro Martinez — we have reaction. Is it time for Illinois to wave a new flag? And celebrating Hanukkah.

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With New Year’s Eve quickly approaching, people are already planning how to step into 2025 with their best foot forward. In Latino cultures that could mean practicing traditions like eating 12 grapes ...

With New Year’s Eve quickly approaching, people are already planning how to step into 2025 with their best foot forward. In Latino cultures that could mean practicing traditions like eating 12 grapes ...