The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe’s leader 175 years ago but ...

The land in southern Dekalb County once belonged to Chief Shab-eh-nay of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation but was seized ...

A powerful blizzard is expected to dump heavy snow on parts of the Midwest and West Coast today. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

A tense community meeting on the planned South Chicago megadevelopment highlighted neighbors' mistrust of the project, driven by decades of divestment and "broken promises." ...

A strong storm system is taking aim at the Ohio Valley this weekend, bringing heavy rain, strong winds, and some storms.

A warning is issued by local forecast offices when weather radar indicates a tornado is coming or has already been seen. This ...

Traffic on the Eisenhower and Route 83 was snarled when a truck carrying salt crashed about 1:20 p.m. Wednesday on an ...

Emergency crews were called to the scene of a crash involving a truck, which left its trailer partially dangling from an overpass along an expressway in the western suburbs ...

and following recent opposition from the state of Illinois, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday it was dropping a plan to expand a toxic waste dump on the Southeast Side of Chicago.

An update on our Special Olympics Illinois athletes that are competing in Italy. Mallory Marvin won her heat in the 50m trial. Daniel Johnson not only won his 800m but came in 14 seconds faster ...

After denying the Army Corps all of the state water quality permits needed to proceed, the Illinois Environmental ... alternative locations for a new dump or adequately assess the risks of ...

After Illinois environmental regulators sided with activists seeking to block the expansion of a lakefront dump, the U.S. Army Corps announced it will explore “alternative solutions” to storing ...