Here's what's happening Sunday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.: THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY: - More Americans are making the decision to have their terminally ill loved ones die at home rather than in nursing home and hospice settings. For...

Northbrook's Nick Hardy and Arlington Heights' Doug Ghim are among the very best young golfers ever produced in the Chicago area. Ghim is a rookie on the PGA Tour and Hardy in his first season on the PGA's development circuit - the Korn Ferry Tour. ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho public health officials abruptly ended a meeting Tuesday after the Boise mayor and chief of police said intense protests outside the health department building - as well as outside some health officials' homes - were threat...

Kane County Democrats may pull off a historic feat - winning four countywide offices, including chairman and state's attorney. And if the candidates maintain current leads as outstanding vote-by-mail ballots are counted, women would lead six of the ...

Iris Y. Martinez, the Democratic state senator from Chicago, became the first Latina elected Cook County circuit court Clerk, winning the race Tuesday against Republican Barbara Bellar, a physician and attorney from Burr Ridge. Martinez led with 1,1...

Fairness in taxation also will boost fairness for schools By Dillin Randolph Guest columnist As a teacher who works in a well-funded suburban district in Illinois, I always joke with my CPS teacher friends that they should join the dark side a...

A second wave of suburban students is rolling into classrooms this month for in-person instruction under hybrid models, driven largely by mounting public pressure to reopen schools and what had been ebbing COVID-19 infection rates. School leaders ac...

Democrat Kate Monteleone, a nonprofits consultant from unincorporated Fox Mill, is challenging incumbent Republican Keith Wheeler of Oswego in the race for Illinois House from the 50th District, which takes in parts of Aurora, Batavia, Big Rock, Cam...

The Baltimore Police Department revealed Friday that an aerial surveillance system being tested across the city since May has given officers information in 81 criminal cases, including 19 homicides, but acknowledged it does not have enough data yet ...