If you've driven around Illinois, there's a strong chance you've noticed corn fields along your commutes. New research ...

Four grade schoolers from Oak Park were among winners of the 2024 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, a statewide contest.

Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists ...

A woman found dead in an Illinois cornfield in 1991 has been identified as a Chicago-area woman more than a decade after ...

Ever wonder just how many cornfields are hiding in plain sight across Illinois, taking up more space than your daily worries?

"This is one of the areas that we really need to be serving, and it bothers me that we can't. So I want to see what I can do ...

The campus of University of Illinois at Chicago in 2020. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share As Illinois students make the trek to college campuses this fall, it is impossible to forget the students who ...

For the past few years, a state review committee has been weighing changes to standardized testing. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin ...

Since 2013, SmokyMountains.com has used data and feedback from foliage fans around the United States to produce a map that shows a ... Northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin could see peak ...

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WGN Radio’s Dave Plier is joined by Andrea Darlas, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Media Relations & Public Affairs, to discuss all the fun fall events happening at the University of ...

Illinois is 3-0 for the first time since 2011 after a sizable win over Central Michigan before a homecoming crowd at Memorial ...