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A traveler checks the status of her flight at the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
IL State News
4 months ago
Post-Thanksgiving travelers in Chicago see hundreds of flights canceled and delayed after snowstorm

About 300 flights into and out of O’Hare had been canceled by early evening, while about 1,600 had been delayed, according to the tracking site FlightAware.

FILE - Signs are displayed outside a tent encampment at Northwestern University on April 26, 2024, in Evanston, Illinois. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, file)
Education
4 months ago
Northwestern to pay $75 million in deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding

During negotiations, interim university president Henry Bienen said Northwestern refused to cede control over hiring, admissions, or its curriculum. “I would not have signed this agreement without provisions ensuring that is the case,” he said.

A person walks against the blowing snow Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
National
4 months ago
Winter storms bring snow, freezing rain and cold as Thanksgiving travelers journey home

Snow-covered roads and slow travel were reported across Iowa and northern Illinois and Indiana.

FILE - Morgan Geyser appears in a Waukesha County courtroom, Jan. 9, 2025, in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, file)
Crime
4 months ago
Wisconsin seeks to block Morgan Geyser’s conditional release after escape from group home

Geyser did not fight her extradition to Wisconsin in a Chicago court appearance Tuesday.

FILE - A Federal Patrol agent's badge is seen near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)
IL State News
4 months ago
Judge’s footnote on immigration agents using AI raises accuracy and privacy concerns

The judge noted factual discrepancies between the official narrative about those law enforcement responses and what body camera footage showed.

Deep Dish Pumpkin Pie
Holiday Guide
4 months ago
What happens when pumpkin pie meets deep-dish pizza?

For pumpkin pie, one state stood out: Illinois.

The inventor of Lite-Brite and other children's toys has died.
IL State News
4 months ago
Toy inventor Burt Meyer, who dreamed up Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, dies age 99

Meyer died on Oct. 30, said Rebecca Mathis, executive director at King-Bruwaert House, a retirement community in Burr Ridge, Illinois, where he lived.

FILE - The Rev. Jesse Jackson listens to speakers at the Tabernacle Baptist Church during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote, March 9, 2025, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
IL State News
4 months ago
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson leaves hospital after treatment for neurological disorder

A protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the two-time presidential candidate and internationally known founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition was hospitalized Nov. 14.

Agriculture
4 months ago
Deere: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot

The results fell short of Wall Street expectations.

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