Residents in northern Illinois will experience degraded air quality today as rain brings Canadian wildfire smoke south. Find out the AQI in your area.

Fast food chain Culver's announced plans to open new locations across 12 states, including Illinois. Find out where.

These 8 charming communities offer friendly faces and the small-town connections we all secretly crave! Nauvoo might be the ...

Nauvoo might just be the friendliest small town in all of Illinois. Historic brick buildings line the main street, each one holding stories from generations past. The town’s water tower stands tall ...

The Plainview-Old Bethpage district wants to fire a longtime elementary school principal who officials allege made sexual innuendoes, inappropriately touched two female employees and pressured ...

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois House Republicans waited too long to file a lawsuit challenging legislative maps drawn in 2021, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. As a result, the Democrat ...

The ladies of Plainview-Old Bethpage, who took home New York’s first state-sanctioned title last year with a mighty 20-0 record, are pulling out the stops to reign as back-to-back champs.

That’s despite their winning just 55% of the vote. This tells any fair-minded person that Illinois has a map problem. Democrats have drawn the 118 House districts in such a way as to reduce the ...

One reigning state champion down and one more to go before the Plainview Bears can reach their ultimate goal. In Tuesday’s Class 4A boys semifinals, No. 2 Plainview toughed out a 51-42 win over ...

Plainview Elementary will open in August with an estimated 396 students living in the southeast part of the county in a zone with room for growth, school officials decided Tuesday. Prior to the ...

Just ahead of the holiday season, there’s a lot to celebrate at the Holiday Inn Plainview Long Island, which has been acquired by a company that plans to invest in renovating rooms and other ...

Eric Henderson is Managing Editor, Midwest for CBSNews.com. He has won three Emmy Awards, an Eric Sevareid Award and two Edward R. Murrow Awards.