Cook graduated as salutatorian in 1978 and was named “most studious.” He told AL.com recently that Dawkins was his favorite teacher. Cook, in a statement to AL.com, said she made English fun every day ...

Communities in Illinois will receive a portion of $12 billion in federal disaster recovery funds for severe storms and flooding over the last two years, including $426 million for Chicago, $244 ...

Some credit the skill of Republican Rep. Don Bacon and Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert. Others say that Democratic dysfunction has ...

Former employees say Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden emotionally abused and retaliated against them, and put staff in danger at the jail through poor management.

The commissioners also reappointed two members of the Franklin County Board of Equalization, Alan Mastin and Michael Wood.

The Warren County Board of Supervisors will hold initial interviews for its newly formed library board during a closed meeting Jan. 16.

A 51-year-old man was arrested in Chicago for failing to register as a sex offender after an investigation by the Cook County ...

Illinois experienced 11 disasters in 2024, mostly severe storms, making it the fourth costliest year to date after 2012, 1993 ...

Residents of Cook County’s east end went without mail delivery from the United States Postal Service for the first week of ...

Veteran real estate developers John Murphy and Gerald Kostelny are under contract to buy 311 S. Wacker Drive, which has been ...

Palatine Township voters will take up some of the state’s most urgent issues at the April 1 election, telling state lawmakers ...

Three Muskogee Police officers who were found "legally justified" after a shooting last month, according to the Muskogee ...