H.L. Mencken crowned Chicago “the literary capital of the United States” in 1920. Lorraine Hansberry and I wrote plays that, ...

Since the 1960s, college presidents such as Notre Dame’s Theodore Hesburgh, Yale’s Kingman Brewster and Berkeley’s Clark Kerr ...

One person has been killed and several others were injured in a Saturday night "incident" at the Albany State University ...

DEKALB, Ill. (WLS) -- A shooting left one person injured in a parking lot at North Illinois University, police said. The ...

Temperatures feel positively summer-like in the Chicago area this weekend, but winter is right around the corner, and an ...

Northern Illinois University police are investigating a shooting that occurred early Sunday morning in a parking lot on the west side of campus.

Wealthy donors have turned us into a DIY Society, where people are supposed to take care of themselves rather than be helped ...

CHICAGO - A 32-year-old man was shot to death in Chicago's Oakland neighborhood Saturday night. Officers found the victim with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest around 8:41 p.m. in the 3800 block ...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WZTV) — Former Chicago Bears and Vanderbilt University quarterback Jay Cutler was arrested on Thursday night ...

Baxter International — provider of 60% of the country's IV fluids — was forced to stop production as flooding tore through a ...

Many of the women participating in Chicago's She Ro intervention program have lost a loved one to gun violence.

A 29-year-old Chicago man is in custody after allegedly stabbing another man following an argument on a CTA bus earlier this ...