The Illinois State Police has reported that a driver disregarded and avoided functioning railroad crossing lights, gates, and bells early Sunday south of Neoga before colliding with a freight train, ...

EAST CHICAGO -- A 44-year-old Chicago woman jumped to her death from Cline Avenue at Riley Road on Monday night.

PORTER | Ralph Grundel remembers walking through prairies of wild lupine at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in the late 1990s and seeing hundreds of endangered Karner blue butterflies fluttering ...