The summer's hottest weather so far is forecast to hit Chicago this weekend.

Swedish prosecutors announced Thursday that they were dropping their investigation into some of the sexual-abuse allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up for three years in the Ecuadorean Embassy here in the Briti...

If you give a dog a bone, there is a chance it can cause digestive problems, obstruction and even death - a far cry from the classic nursery rhyme. Yet a class-action lawsuit filed in California makes a case that the baddest of those bones is the R...

The curtain is about to go up on another school year. But in Coal City, the first day of school Friday will be anything but typical.

The list of women accusing comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault grew Wednesday as two actresses and a former airline attendant added to the lurid allegations.

University of Illinois trustees Wednesday rejected a $400,000 bonus payment for outgoing Chancellor Phyllis Wise, backpedaling on a resignation deal made last week and instead choosing to begin dismissal proceedings against her.