Many Illinois homeowners will soon see their home insurance rates skyrocket due to the increase in extreme weather events.

One skydiver died and another was injured following a midair collision in Rochelle, Illinois that caused both parachute canopies to collapse despite reserve parachutes being deployed.

For one newly married Catholic couple, a recent meeting with the first Illinois-born pope presented a spontaneous opportunity for the couple to express their devotion to another holy Illinoisan — Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen — and to plead with the Pope to help Sheen’s sainthood cause move forward.