Go>. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday announced a universal face mask mandate inside public and private schools and day cares to combat the highly infectious COVID-19 delta variant. "My goal has always been to safely bring all kids back into the classro...

A 16-year-old boy was killed and three teens were injured in a one-car crash in Bartlett, authorities said Wednesday. The Cook County medical examiner's office said Alex E. Czerwik of Bartlett was the teen who died. The identities of the injured tee...

I'm really going to enjoy writing about chimney swifts. I say this because chimney swifts allow me to share a story that has been one of my all-time favorites to tell, but we'll save that until later. The name game This species' name fits it perfect...

TOKYO (AP) - Simone Biles returned to the competition at the Tokyo Olympics in style, and will leave with another medal. What color it is really isn't the point. That she delivered a tense, heart-pounding routine on the balance beam and nailed it wi...

TOKYO (AP) - When brash Norwegian hurdler Karsten Warholm led the field to the starting line on a steamy afternoon at Olympic Stadium, he and his seven opponents had every reason to expect they'd be part of something special. It turned out to be mor...

TOKYO - Sydney McLaughlin broke her world record Wednesday and won the Olympic 400-meter hurdles gold, finishing in 51.46 seconds in yet another close victory over U.S. teamate Dalilah Muhammad. McLaughlin came from behind after the last hurdle to t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Jenson Brooksby found himself in hardly an ideal spot in the first set of the first round of the Citi Open against big-serving Kevin Anderson: trailing the two-time Grand Slam runner-up in a tiebreaker. Brooksby, a 20-year-old Amer...

KASHIMA, Japan (AP) - Carli Lloyd, clutch in so many critical moments for the U.S. women's soccer team, failed to connect against Canada on Monday night and the Americans won't play for a fifth Olympic gold medal. Lloyd's look in the 86th minute wi...

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) - The U.S. can do something no other women's basketball team can at the Tokyo Games: bring former WNBA MVPs Tina Charles and Sylvia Fowles off the bench. The Americans' depth in the post continues to be the difference for the U.S...

DENVER, Colo. (AP) - Mudslides from heavy rains caused "extreme damage'ť to a major interstate and left it blocked with piles of boulders and logs, Colorado transportation officials said Sunday, as forecasters warned of more flash floods in the comi...