Disability rights advocates worry about potential for coercion, want more state oversight

Diesel prices have spiked just in time for corn and soybean harvests. Farmers need the fuel to bring in the crops, and many were already hurting, but there are factors offsetting this latest setback.

From a Chatham kitchen to 10 million monthly visitors, Kasey Schwartz built AllThingsMamma.com into a thriving recipe business—and has learned how to adapt as the digital world changes.

The prepared products, which include pico de gallo salsa and guacamole, were sent to stores in 26 states.

Security Officer Caleb Patrick saw a woman lying on the nearby railroad tracks with a train approaching. He ran to the scene and pulled her to safety.

Financial documents that could alert communities to which hospitals are at risk of closing will be kept confidential under a new state law enacted by Gov. JB Pritzker. The move comes as doctors fear more hospitals could close next year

Paul Ferguson has been serving in this role in an interim capacity since April/

Discover a different approach to health care. Dr. Hossain Mesbah explains how direct primary care puts patients—not insurance paperwork—at the center of medicine.

By winning Sunday, the Spanish football federation has made history as the first to bring home successive World Cup championships on the men's and women's side in the history of the tournament.

Illinois reports 240 cases of the intestinal infection that causes “explosive diarrhea.” No definitive cause for the current outbreak has been identified.