County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black ...

When Rickley investigated, he discovered the dogs jumped a cougar that had been on the carcass of a 3-point buck.

A Sangamon County deputy fatally shot Sonya Massey, 36, last year, after she called to report a prowler outside her home in ...

An armadillo in southern Illinois and the quickest sturgeon season on Black Lake in northern Michigan are among the notes ...

The Black Chamber of Commerce of Southern Illinois's 4th annual Black Business Expo is this Saturday, Feb. 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The expo includes 60 local vendors, ...

CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

Jackie White, a native of Centralia, Illinois, in 1968 became the first Black person to officiate an NBA game.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted a key project meant to defend the Great Lakes from invasive carp, citing federal funding uncertainty.

Enough people are noticing in Illinois that some counties want to secede from the Land of Lincoln and join a state that isn’t ruled by public unions and their political yes-men. In November ...

The Trump administration sued officials in Illinois, Chicago, and Cook County on Thursday over policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement authorities, accusing them of ...

Trump administration officials are suing Illinois and top state officials, hoping to force them to turn over suspected illegal immigrants rather than releasing them from jails and state prisons.