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PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Company towns like Peoria, Illinois, have long relied on a major employer to provide generations of locals with jobs and give the cities their central identity. Now many of those m...

According to Central Continental Bakery, the paczki is a traditional Polish dessert that is especially popular one day of the year, “Fat Tuesday,” the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. It is t...

(MOKENA) A 21-year-old man died Wednesday morning after a "workplace mishap" in southwest suburban Mokena. Anas L. Ali, of Midlothian, was pronounced dead at 11:40 a.m. in the 18000 block of Wolf Road...

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Peering 103 floors down from the Willis Tower, taking a selfie in the “Bean” and cruising down the Chicago River are all worth doing. But there’s a lot to...

Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Thursday, February 23, 2017 CRAZY RIDE THE NEXT FEW DAY!!!! RECORD HIGH TIED TODAY. STORMS LOOK POSSIBLE FRIDAY AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES…̷...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Donald Trump is sending his top diplomat and homeland security chief to Mexico on a fence-mending mission made all the more challenging by the actual fence he wants to bui...

In celebration of Washington’s birthday, we've gathered 20 inspirational sayings by the founding father of U.S. (from the International Business Times) 1. "If the freedom of speech is taken away...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ho5LSXSbc&feature=youtu.be An advertising business veteran gives us the inside story on the making of the Superbowl’s popular TV commercials. He tells us wh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoaJ5BIgPSE&feature=youtu.be Shure microphone: http://go.magik.ly/ml/3wc9/ Marianne loses an argument over what Bob should wear. She’s missing their daughter ...

CHICAGO (AP) - An education program that debuted last year with the megahit musical “Hamilton” on Broadway is coming to the touring company in Chicago. Broadway in Chicago says 1,900 Chica...