Are you curious why Chicago dyes its river green for St. Patrick's Day? Learn the history, tradition and fun behind the iconic celebration.

With winds coming off the lake, it'll be much cooler at lakeside locations, with highs in the upper 40s, compared to the low ...

Traffic on the Eisenhower and Route 83 was snarled when a truck carrying salt crashed about 1:20 p.m. Wednesday on an ...

Trinity Irish Dancers have been performing hundreds of times across the city each March since 1982, becoming a household name and a staple of Chicago’s Irish community.

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies.

A new analysis from Stone Real Estate found that the shopping strips on Damen, Armitage and Southport avenues are thriving, ...

Metra is considering renaming its lines in the Chicago area. The rail agency has released a survey to gauge public feedback ...

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

Google partnered with the MTA on a pilot program that involved using sounds recorded on smartphones attached to trains to detect track issues before they occur.

The Illinois Big Tree Register is being tidied up and brings a reminder of how many champion trees are around us, including ...