The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for parts of the Chicago area Friday, with wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour in the forecast. The warning comes as wind advisories ...

GURNEE, Ill. (WLS) -- Six Flags is showing off its newest dive roller coaster and it's not for the faint of heart. The Wrath of Rakshasa has been under construction for months. The monster of a ...

On March 8 — International Women's Day — the Bears hosted the first ever collegiate women's flag football game in the state of Illinois. A crowd of coaches, families and high school flag football ...

The city of Aurora will hold its St. Patrick’s Parade and Irish flag-raising ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday in downtown Aurora. The event “honoring the legacy of the parade’s namesake ...

Donald Trump has said he will speak to Vladimir Putin about plans for a ceasefire in the Ukraine war, as his secretary of state Marco Rubio said the ball is now in Russia’s court. Mr Trump has ...

There was no better way to honor International Women's Day than by making history at the Walter Payton Center with two women's college teams facing off. Chicago Bears brass told ABC7 this is just ...

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Illinoisans have spoken: Don’t go changing our flag. The public had a chance to vote for a new flag from one of 12 designs or keep the current one. And after five weeks of voting, the current ...

Illinoisans voted to keep the current state flag in a redesign contest. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times file Share Illinoisans have spoken: Don’t go changing our flag. The public had a chance ...

An overwhelming majority of voters of an online poll chose maintaining the current flag of Illinois rather than picking any of the 10 new options or one of two alternate state flag designs used in ...

After Illinois residents cast nearly 400,000 ballots over five weeks in a contest to redesign the state flag, the overwhelming winner was … the current flag. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi ...