Studio apartments have been around in major cities since the late 1800s. When we think of the quintessential studio apartment, we think New York City, so it is of note that the Big Apple has made some shifts downwards in the minimum size for a lega...

A candidate running for state Senate wrote a $2,595 check to the Cook County Assessor on Friday after I called to ask him about improperly claiming two primary homeowner exemptions for a number of years. Steve Caramelli, who's running against Crist...

Nearly 45 Bartlett High School students upset over being denied waivers for gym class for next school year appealed to district authorities Monday night. Students and parents urged the Elgin Area School District U-46 school board to reconsider the d...

BEIRUT (AP) - Bombings claimed by the Islamic State group in the Syrian cities of Damascus and Homs killed nearly 130 people on Sunday, highlighting the threat posed by the extremists as the country's warring factions fight for the northern city of ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Dorothy Hollingsworth was just 7 when her brother Tom left the family farm in Indiana to join the Army a few months before the United States entered World War II. She never saw him again. Now, more than 70 years after Pfc. Thomas...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Like many small business owners in this struggling U.S. territory, Luis Escribano was having a hard time paying the power bills. So, for at least five years, he did what many others have done: tampered with the electrici...

Hoverboards may have been the must-have gift this past holiday season, but a group of Elgin elementary school students think they're on the verge of the next big thing: hovercrafts. Anthony Villagomez, Alejandro Alcaraz, Remigio Rosas and Carlos Esp...

Officials at the state's second-largest school district are prepping students and parents for a new college entrance exam debuting next month. Illinois has stopped funding the ACT college entrance test that had been administered for free to 11th-gra...

Larkin High School's annual “Bring a Book to Life” program faces an exciting challenge this year. For 16 years, the school's Visual and Performing Arts Academy has taken children's classics like “Peter Pan” or “Mary Poppins” and brought them to the ...