Officials at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District urged people to put off chores like washing dishes or doing laundry ...

Cost-of-living is factoring into the region's growth prospects. Here's the role affordability is playing locally.

A typical homeowner in Illinois is paying almost $1,000 more per year for home insurance, an increase that also affects ...

ZIP code in the Chicago metro. That's according to a recent analysis by The Business Journals, which analyzed more than 33,200 ZIP codes across the nation — looking specifically at the level of ...

The Chicago metropolitan area and Cook County both saw slight increases in population according to the most recent estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, as international immigration outpaced ...

The Chicago metropolitan area saw a slight increase in population according to the most recent estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, as international immigration outpaced domestic departures in many ...

Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The Chicago area’s population is finally growing again, with the metro area and Cook County among those nationally that added the most ...

Copilot The 50 top-selling used cars in the Chicago metro area. Trucks reign supreme, reflecting the city's utility-driven ...

For most of the 2010s, Chicago's home prices lagged the nation, and even when the pandemic and super-low interest rates ...

"One in four families with children in the Chicago metro area are currently facing food insecurity," said Man-Yee Lee, Greater Chicago Food Depository spokesperson. "We are very concerned." ...

The Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metropolitan area grew by 70,762 people — less than 1% — from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024. That was the ninth-largest numeric growth of any metropolitan area in ...