Space heaters are most often responsible for home-heating fires, according to the National Fire Protection Association.

With two games against the Packers in the next three weeks, it’s finally time for those Soldier Field chants to ring true and not be based on blind hope. It’s time for this to become a real rivalry again, Marc Silverman writes

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction in an ongoing lawsuit to block the Trump administration from enforcing the Defund Provision in the federal budget reconciliation law intended for the federal government to end Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers

Lifting heavy snow quickly increases your heart rate. For people who have heart disease—or don’t know they have it—this can trigger a heart attack, the Silver Cross Medical Group said.

From Capitol News Illinois: The initiative will center programming on uplifting local stories across the state. It will include a youth art contest and an archival project to record residents’ reflections on the 250th anniversary in the Library of Congress

From Capitol News Illinois: A federal appeals court is deliberating whether hundreds of undocumented immigrants arrested in the Chicago area in recent months should be released from detention and sent home with electronic monitoring

From Capitol News Illinois: Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill Tuesday that he said will protect Illinois residents from “junk science” undermining evidence-based vaccine regulations at the federal level

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday that the action is in the works because those states are refusing to provide data the department requested such as the names and immigration status of the aid recipients. Democratic states have sued

Flying without REAL ID will cost many travelers extra to board planes as of Feb. 1, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced Monday.