The chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court called for an investigation Wednesday after the leak of a draft order that showed the court would take a case brought by Planned Parenthood that seeks to declare that access to abortion is a right protected by the state constitution.
Aldermen on Tuesday agreed to hold a resolution expanding the allowable number of licenses for tattoo parlors in the city from four to five until at least the July 9 City Council meeting.
Sean Rowe, a 49-year-old bishop from western Pennsylvania, on Wednesday became the youngest person ever elected as leader of the Episcopal Church.
Aldermen voted 9-2 to give telecommunications company AT&T a conditional use permit for a 125-foot-high monopole that would replace an existing light pole on the baseball field in the park.
The Kane County coroner has released the identifies of three people killed in a double-murder-suicide in Elgin in May.
The Merrillville School Board is holding a public hearing at 4:30 p.m. Thursday for feedback on a proposed three-year contract for the district’s next superintendent.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet and raised a celebratory clenched fist as his supporters cheered on Wednesday, hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga.
USA Gymnastics believes it is building momentum toward a better future as the 2024 Olympics near.
Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $2 trillion in market value for the first time in afternoon trading on Wednesday.
Workers at Heartland Animal Shelter in northwest suburban Wheeling announced early Wednesday morning that it would be closed for the day after an overnight water main break flooded the facility. We experienced a flood of two feet of water overnight,” read an email from the shelter. “All of the animals are safe but we are currently evacuating the shelter.” A water main is blamed for the flooding, but no further information was immediately available about that. It was also not immediately clear how many animals were impacted, the full extent of the flooding and when the shelter expects to reopen. […]