An autistic man who went missing from Des Plaines has been found. Des Plaines police say Brandon Young, 36, was found in good health at a Walgreens in Chicago. He was being returned home Thursday afternoon, police said. Young was reported missing fr...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The death toll rose to at least five on Sunday after severe thunderstorms swept through the central U.S., spawning a tornado that flattened homes, gale force winds and widespread flooding from the Upper Midwest to Appalachia...

Prosecutors say Hoffman Estates sitter caused devastating injuries A baby sitter from Hoffman Estates was ordered held on $500,000 bail Wednesday. She is accused of shaking a 5-month-old girl repeatedly, causing what one doctor described as cat...

CHICAGO (AP) - The Latest on severe weather in the Midwest (all times local): 5:25 p.m. Two weak tornadoes have hit North Texas, demolishing at least one mobile home and damaging about a dozen others in a rural area near Joshua and damaging the roof...

CHICAGO (AP) - A storm system that's brought rain, ice and snow to the Midwest and Great Plains was blamed for fatal crashes in three states, including an accident that left four people dead in Nebraska. The storm system stretched from Texas, where ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Several U.S. House races are expected to be competitive in the Illinois primary, including an open seat, a seat held by a seven-term Democrat facing a challenge from his left and several Republican seats that Democrats hope to flip co...

By the 1980s, America finally publicly embraced the black athlete, looking past skin color to see athleticism and skill, rewarding stars with multimillion-dollar athletic contracts, movie deals, lucrative shoe endorsements and mansions in all-white ...

West Chicago teachers strike averted After nearly two years of increasingly tense debate, negotiators for West Chicago High School District 94 and its teachers union have reached a tentative contract agreement that averts a strike and keeps nearly 2...