Blending planning with heartwarming traditions can create a truly memorable Thanksgiving experience.
Holiday Guide
2 months ago
Host a memorable Thanksgiving

Blending planning with heartwarming traditions can create a truly memorable Thanksgiving experience.

Those who want to make their sweet potatoes a little more sweet this holiday season can try this recipe for "Sweet Potato Marshmallow Gratin."
Holiday Guide
2 months ago
A recipe to make sweet potatoes even sweeter

Those who want to make their sweet potatoes a little more sweet this holiday season can try this recipe for “Sweet Potato Marshmallow Gratin.”

Pumpkin pie
Holiday Guide
2 months ago
Pumpkin pie is the classic holiday dessert

This recipe for “Pumpkin Pie” from Lines+Angles can be just what guests are looking for as they seek to tie a bow on their Thanksgiving feast.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan leaves Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Feb. 12 after a jury convicted him on 10 corruption counts, including bribery. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Crime
2 months ago
9 months after federal bribery conviction, former Speaker Madigan disbarred

Longtime Illinois Democratic power broker now in a West Virginia prison.

llinois Commerce Commission Chair Dough Scott is pictured alongside commissioners Michael Carrigan (left) and Ann McCabe (right) at a November 2023 meeting in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Local
2 months ago
ICC slashes Nicor, Ameren proposed gas rate hikes by over 40%

Environmental and consumer advocates applaud decision for promoting energy affordability.

Rafael Hernandez, originally from Mexico, sells food from his family's food truck, Nov. 6, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
IL State News
2 months ago
A Chicago street vendor couple has a defiant response to immigration arrests: Stick to the routine

The couple says working not only pays the bills but helps avoid depression, making them stand out from others gripped by fear in Chicago’s immigrant communities.

This still image taken from Chicago Transit Authority surveillance footage and included in a federal court record shows a man who federal authorities identified as Lawrence Reed holding a flaming bottle and approaching a passenger, far left, on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, on a Chicago Blue Line train. (Chicago Transit Authority/U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois via AP) Screenshot
Crime
2 months ago
Federal judge orders man held on federal terrorism charge in Chicago train attack

The attack Monday night on Chicago’s Blue Line L train has drawn national attention, primarily because the victim appeared to be targeted at random.

Education
2 months ago
Mom / teacher: Computers hurt more than they help

She urges District 186 to curb use of Chromebooks.

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