The screenings will take place at parks in communities where residents have some of Chicago's lowest life expectancies.

Despite a ban from Park District work after he was asked to resign from a top post there for his involvement in the agency’s sexual abuse lifeguard scandal, a longtime government employee has again ...

After years of warm relations with the Biden White House, a grim reality sets in for Illinois, with Donald Trump inauguration ...

Sledding is the perfect activity for when you've got to get the kids out of the house or go crazy on a wintry Chicago day.

Mary Gibson, president of the Naperville Park Board and a candidate for Naperville City Council, is headed to North Africa ...

Chicago public libraries and Chicago Park District locations are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A full schedule and list of warming centers and winter resources across Chicago can be found here. A list of ...

The community was welcomed to the Buffalo Grove Park District’s Lunar New Year celebration on the evening of Saturday, Jan.

Plans to expand a lakefront dump for polluted sediment would amount to “open dumping," given a landfill ban in Cook County, ...

After over a decade of sitting vacant, demolition of the former Tinley Park Mental Health Center site has started.

Stepped-up efforts to provide housing resources to those living in the homeless encampment at Gompers Park, 4222 W. Foster ...

School districts prepare students with developmental disabilities, but after graduation, skills and potential are lost as Chicago families try to figure out the next steps. Here are stories about ...