Illinois congressman displays shrapnel as he urges: ‘Tone down this rhetoric’
Four days after shots rang out while he stood at home plate at a congressional baseball practice, U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis used a tiny chunk of metal to make a...
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After 100 days, residents in bellwether Illinois county weigh in on Trump
The gentlemen who gather six mornings a week in the backroom of the Furniture Country store to sip coffee and present solutions to the world's problems play a number-guessing game...
Member of Decatur Seven elected to school board that once expelled him
Courtney Carson threw a punch at a high school football game on a Friday night almost two decades ago and catapulted himself from profane, drug-dealing street gangbanger to national symbol...
Pockets of strong Trump support in deep blue Democrat Chicago
The last decade has been rocky for Angela Brancato, who grew up in Chicago's Mount Greenwood neighborhood and then left with her fiance in 2007 for brighter job prospects in...
Scientists, entrepreneurs in Chicago area tackle ‘brain hacking’
For class credit in a psychology course, University of Chicago student Marianne Dolan had her brain zapped with electricity on a Tuesday afternoon in the psychology department at Kelly Hall....
Bird bachelorette research may yield crucial answers to zoo animals’ survival
Up four flights of stairs and in a remote corner of Brookfield Zoo's Tropic World, a version of "The Bachelorette" TV show is unfolding. This one features a tropical bird,...
Big-league boost, community support for South Elgin middle school assault victim
Hours after many in the Elgin School District U-46 community wore green — the color of healing — for a seventh-grader severely injured in a South Elgin school assault, the...
Navy SEAL from Peoria killed in Yemen recalled for his drive, humor
In many ways, William "Ryan" Owens was a typical kid at Illinois Valley Central High School: fun-loving, solid student-athlete and respectful to adults. One element of his personality distinguished him...
In Reagan’s hometown, excitement, civility and resolve on Inauguration Day
At Dion's one-seat barbershop in Ronald Reagan's boyhood hometown, three local gents watched as President Donald Trump took the oath of office and talked about a movement never seen before;...
Small Catholic university, big Muslim enrollment try to build bridges
Zainub Fiaz did her homework on Benedictine University before enrolling in the quiet institution in west suburban Lisle. She found out that its education major is rigorous and has affiliations...