Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday as caution set in after a retreat on Wall Street driven by a decline in technology shares. Market players are feeling less optimistic about action from the U.S. Federal Reserve and Congress to help the U.S. ec...

Elgin City Council members withheld their blessing of a plan Wednesday night to keep eight city police officers in Elgin Area School District U-46 hallways for the 2020-21 school year until they get more information about an admitted disparity in th...

Illinois Senate District 25 has historically voted conservative. For two decades, it was the fiefdom of current Kane County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen and for the past eight years, the Senate seat has been occupied by Jim Oberweis of Sugar Grove. ...

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) - Daniil Medvedev lost his first match since reaching the U.S. Open semifinals as he was beaten 6-4, 6-3 Tuesday by unseeded French player Ugo Humbert in the first round of the Hamburg European Open. The top-seeded Medvedev wa...

HOUSTON (AP) - Beta weakened to a tropical depression Tuesday as it parked itself over the Texas coast, raising concerns of extensive flooding in Houston and areas farther inland. Beta, which made landfall late Monday as a tropical storm just north ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro defended his administration's record protecting the Amazon rainforest, telling the United Nations' virtual meeting of global leaders on Tuesday that his country has been wrongly portrayed as an...

Candidates vying for the state Senate 25th District seat discussed a host of issues, including Springfield ethics reform, the state's graduated income tax proposal and its response to helping small businesses weather the pandemic, during a recent Da...

Illinois recorded 1,531 new cases of COVID-19 and 30 additional deaths as the nation hit a heartbreaking milestone Tuesday with 200,000 people dying from the virus - parents, siblings, friends and Anne Gulotta's dad, Robert Kanney. "The last words h...

Democrat Karina Villa of West Chicago faces a challenge from Republican Jeanette Ward of West Chicago, a former member of the school board in Elgin Area School District U-46, in the race for Illinois Senate from the 25th District. The 25th District...