UPDATE Around 9 p.m. Wednesday, the rev. and state Sen. James Meeks ended the two-day Chicago Public Schools boycott he organized to protest inequitable education funding.

Kathleen O'Brien was always on the lookout for someone to keep her Glenview home in ship-shape. As luck would have it, it was while having her nails done that she found Jake Condon busily painting away and ...

Officials say that while there have been fewer people, mosquitos and birds infected with the West Nile virus identified so far this year, the virus seems to be popping up later than usual and the hazard this ...

State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias urges residents of Cook and the collar counties to check their local newspapers this weekend to find out if they are the owners of millions of dollars in lost wealth.

What began as a one-time project to clean up a weedy strip of land a decade ago in the village's Kenilworth Gardens neighborhood has blossomed into one of the area's largest prairie gardens.