Northern Illinois University students from left: Sarah Payton of Hampshire, 21, Christina Kouyoumdzoglou of Athens, Greece, 21, Brianna Tyler of Park Forest, Ill., 20, take part in a prayer vigil T… ...

An endowment of $50,000 is being established at Northern Illinois University in the name of former longtime Daily Southtown columnist Phil Kadner, with the money going to pay small salaries to staf… ...

DEKALB, Ill. — A man dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns from a stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, killing four people and injuring ...