Eleven states have seen double or more tornado reports through May this year than the same time period last year.

This year, the Prairie State is one of two states home to both broods of periodical cicadas emerging in a rare, double-brood event. Trillions of 13- and 17-year cicadas part of Brood XIX ...

A car’s crash into an after-school program building in central Illinois this week – a wreck that killed four people ages 7 to 18 and injured six other children – does not appear to have been a ...