Rockford’s looming $10.5 million budget deficit could soon be reduced by $2.7 million, the city’s finance director says.

When Yu Darvish met with Theo Epstein and other Chicago Cubs' officials last December in the Dallas area, the Japanese pitcher liked what he heard.

For a second consecutive year, President Donald Trump is trying to drastically reduce or eliminate federal support of cleanups for iconic U.S. waterways including the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay.

A southern Illinois county is providing a daily pill that can help prevent infection for people at risk of HIV.

Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center along Michigan Avenue is getting a new name.

Two more confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease were found among residents of a veterans home in western Illinois where the illness has been linked to the deaths of 13 people since 2015.

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The report shows that that were 655 confirmed cases of Influenza A (H3N2) from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3, and 195 cases of Influenza B.

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The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum launched its celebration of Lincoln’s birthday by announcing two major acquisitions.

Best known for the song, "Too Much Fun," Daryle Singletary was discovered by country-music legend Randy Travis.

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has dismissed a long-time political consultant after an investigation found he sent inappropriate text messages to a colleague.

Former Major League Baseball pitcher Esteban Loaiza has been arrested in California on suspicion of smuggling cocaine and heroin.

A company investigation into Ranger inflators from the 2006 model year found test results showing that more inflators had ruptured or recorded high internal pressure readings.

Traffic fatalities increased slightly in most but not all states from 1992 to 2016, amounting to an overall increased risk of 12 percent — or an extra 142 driver deaths linked with 4/20, said one University of British Columbia professor.