Illinois

An Illinois lottery player is $9.2 million richer after playing the wrong game when at a local grocery store when a machine malfunctioned and he was forced to play the lottery instead.

A United Airlines Boeing plane heading from Mexico to Chicago was forced to land in Memphis after it encountered "severe turbulence" over Louisiana.

Chicago's unemployment rate is tied for the highest unemployment in the country among major metro areas, while Illinois' is the second-highest of the 50 states.

Wealthy Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is basking on the national stage this week after successfully bringing the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to Chicago.

The Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday in Chicago as the Windy City closes in on 10 consecutive years of population declines amid a high tax climate spurring the exodus.

A mansion sitting on the shore of Lake Michigan recently went up for grabs – and its eight-figure asking price brought it a notable title.

Chicago-area theme park Six Flags Great America is getting a new "record-breaking" dive roller coaster named Wrath of Rakshasa, the company announced Thursday.

Police say a suspect attacked three people with a "hatchet-like object" at a Chicago McDonald's after an employee denied him free food.

Suburban Chicago resident Darryl Lloyd told FOX 32 that his property tax bill skyrocketed to over $30,000 after an erroneous property assessment.

Walmart must face a lawsuit that claimed that the retail giant often charges higher prices at the register than it posts on store shelves

John Deere has announced another wave of layoffs, telling around 610 production staff at plants in Illinois and Iowa that they will be out of a job by the end of the summer.

A large Illinois horse farm owned by John Deere CEO John May is up for sale, according to a Wednesday report from Realtor.com. He is reportedly seeking $3.925 million for the property.

Bethalto, Illinois fire crews responded to Route 255 on Sunday afternoon after a Tesla battery reportedly caught fire and posed potential issues with hazardous materials.

A mother in Illinois has won a $1.4 million jackpot after using her children's birthdays as lucky numbers, according to state lottery officials.

Work at an Amazon fulfillment center in a suburb of Chicago appears to have resumed, after employees had evacuated due to a fire Thursday morning.

Illinois has launched a state-run website to track government spending on illegal immigrants as the border crisis drains state resources and taxpayer dollars.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after GoJet and SkyWest aircraft clipped wings at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Tuesday.

The fast-food giant McDonald’s is set to debut a new spinoff restaurant called "CosMc's" in a Chicago suburb. The venue will likely serve coffee, iced teas, lemonades and slushies.

Up to 1,000 jobs are on the chopping block for U.S. Steel Corporation's Granite City Works mill in southern Illinois, the company announced this week.

President Biden plans to meet with union boss Shawn Fain on Thursday, following a labor deal in which the Detroit Three will agree to a 25% pay hike, as well as improved retirement packages.