Illinois

The Illinois Department of Public Health is “fully adopting” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s updated masking guidance, the state’s health department said Tuesday, recommending that fully vaccinated people begin wearing masks indoors again in places with substantial and high transmission.

The small village of Oak Park outside Chicago has made an outsized impact on the world as home to a slew of celebrities and trailblazers. Ludacris, Betty White and Joe Tinker are joined by Frank Lloyd Wright, Iman Shumpert and Ernest Hemingway in calling it home. NBCLX storyteller Jalyn Henderson looks at the complicated history of Oak Park, Illinois, and...

Just 10 miles from the city of Chicago, the village of Oak Park has been a home to people like architect Frank Lloyd Wright, author Ernest Hemingway and Dr. Percy Julian, a researcher who helped develop treatments for glaucoma and rheumatoid arthritis. More recent residents include Ludacris, Betty White and NBA player Iman Shumpert. But the village has helped mold other...

The dish hasn’t caught on with U.S. consumers, despite its popularity in much of the world.

Indiana prosecutors have charged four juveniles from southeastern Illinois with allegedly torturing and poaching more than 20 wild deer in the two states

The Land of Lincoln’s infrastructure is best. But the state’s finances, while showing signs of improvement, are troubled.

Storms capable of producing damaging winds, large hail and heavy downpours could hit parts of the Chicago area Wednesday and into Thursday.

Three cities in Illinois and several from the Midwest ranked among the best to live across the U.S., according to a new report.

Many American states are falling apart, literally, with infrastructure in major need of upgrades. Not these 10 states, which are the most-solid in the nation.

Periods Of Showers And Storms Ahead, Possibly Severe

Covid showed that letting employees work remotely does not necessarily result in a loss of productivity. These states are the best work from home locations.

Fans of Olympic high jumper Darryl Sullivan will surely be watching to see just how high the Illinois native can go in Tokyo, but there’s something else you might want to watch for.

The Illinois Department of Transportation is accepting applications for projects to improve public transit systems outside of Chicago.

This is the scene rescuers confront when they first arrive at a building collapse. In Illinois, a training structure was built to simulate the collapse of a three-story parking garage, filled with cars, rebar, slabs of concrete, office supplies and more. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers went inside — and space was tight.

A fire chief is telling residents who were evacuated after a massive explosion at a northern Illinois chemical plant that they can return to their homes

The Wisconsin Assembly was scheduled Wednesday to send a package of police reform bills to Gov. Tony Evers, including a measure banning police use of chokeholds except in life-threatening situations or in self defense.

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly planned to vote Wednesday on bills banning transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports, measures that are being debated in the middle of gay pride month and are all-but certain to be headed for a veto by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

Illinois public health officials on Monday reported the lowest daily cases of coronavirus since March 2020.

Illinois is set to fully reopen next week, but there will still be some guidelines in place.

For Illinois, the changes to voting law that legislators made in the final hours of their legislative session this week seemed innocuous. In some cases — voting by mail, allowing jail inmates awaiting trial to cast ballots — are affirmation or expansion of practices already put to the test.