Two weeks after Metra launched its “quiet car” operation, some passengers are raving about the peace they say the program brings, while others say the cars really aren’t so quiet.

City leaders are looking at adding more access points for emergency vehicles, rerouting CTA buses in severe weather and installing more observation cameras to avoid a repeat of February’s blizzard-driven meltdown that led to hundreds of vehicles…

The Illinois treasurer’s office announced today that it will offer refunds to families who were disappointed to learn that contributions to their Bright Start college savings accounts would not be matched.

Prisoner has spent 15 years behind bars for Waukegan businessman’s death A new DNA test of blood evidence from the 1994 murder of a prominent Waukegan businessman has been found to match someone other than the man who has served 15 years in prison for…

An international Christian radio and television network based in West Frankfort in southern Illinois and the brother of the network’s founder were named in a federal child-sex-abuse lawsuit filed in Chicago today.