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It's said that it takes 1.1 gallons of water to grow a single almond, but an expert tells us that oversimplifies the issue.

Chicago politicians spend a lot of time decrying and denying the decades-old description of their home town as the most segregated city in the north.…

They got up before the sun and poured coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts and McDonald’s in downtown Chicago. They found sitters for their kids and went off to…

It’s Sunday morning and there’s standing room only at St. Alexius Catholic Church in Beardstown. Young Mexican immigrant families overflow the pews, the…

It can be described as a fishbowl on stilts or a jewel set in a forest. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Farnsworth House as a place of solace where…

Medicaid expenses are booming. Illinois lawmakers know that. Now they know other states are dealing with the same problem.At the National Conference of…

Vermont is a long way from the Mississippi River. But with the right boat and some time, it’s possible to get there, traveling a long and circuitous route…

On a spring morning in Johnson County, a chorus sings of the southern Illinois that once was. As the rising sun sends shafts of light into the deep green…

It seems a shame to ask such a question in the great state of Illinois, where Powell grew to maturity and developed the values and ideas that shaped an…

Thousands of state employees are a step closer to receiving money they've been waiting on since 2011.The Illinois House approved spending the…