Illinois

Two Illinois EMS workers have been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a 35-year-old patient in their care, authorities announced in a press release Tuesday. Peter Cadigan, 50, and Peggy Finley, 44, who were emergency medical workers for LifeStar, were charged with first-degree murder after the death of Earl L. Moore Jr, 35, on Dec. 18, 2022,…

An Illinois dog who had been missing since a barn fire in early December has been reunited with its family. 

An Illinois dog who had been missing since a barn fire in early December has been reunited with its family.

An eighth grader at Milton Pope Middle School in Marseilles, Ill., nailed a desperate near-full-court shot to win the game for his team.

New details are emerging in a fiery crash that left two people dead and at least 16 others injured, seven of whom are children.

“It’s almost like I got to hug my daughter again,” the mother said.

It appears an Illinois family just won Halloween.

The child’s relative is accused of pushing him into the lake while at Navy Pier in Chicago and then standing by as he sank.

The winners of a Mega Millions jackpot totaling $1.3 billion will receive much less than that as a lump sum payment.

Seven of the injured were in the building on the city’s West Side when the explosion occurred and one apparently was in a building across the street.

One ticket sold in Des Plaines, Illinois, matched the winning numbers, but the purchaser still hasn’t claimed it.

The Biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency Thursday, opening the door for emergency funding and accelerating vaccine distribution.

A funeral service was held Monday afternoon for the last of seven people killed by a gunman at an Independence Day parade, as family and friends gathered in suburban Chicago to remember Kevin McCarthy.

One father in Illinois is speaking out against a local waterpark after he claimed his daughter was publicly weighed and embarrassed before being turned away from a ride.

Days after a rooftop gunman killed seven people at a parade, attention has turned to how the assailant obtained multiple guns and whether the laws on Illinois books could have prevented the Independence Day massacre.

The suspect in the Highland Park, Illinois, Fourth of July parade mass shooting had two prior contacts with police, including one domestic incident in which a family member reported he said he was “going to kill everyone,” according to officials.

AR-style rifles have been used in a series of high-profile mass shootings in recent U.S. history, and officials believe it was this type of rifle used to kill 6 people and wound 30 at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, this week.

Bystanders captured the moment shots were fired at the Highland Park, Illinois Fourth of July parade on TikTok.

A home in suburban Illinois, which is almost entirely underground, sold last week after being on the market for just nine days.

A home in Illinois, which is almost entirely underground, sold last week after being on the market for just nine days.