The tiny central Illinois village of New Salem, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did ...

A "Get Behind the Vest" pancake breakfast was held on Chicago's Near West Side Sunday to help those who protect and serve to stay protected. The event raises money to buy new bulletproof vests for ...

ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- With a large part of the roof gone, services for Elgin's First United Methodist Church were held online on Sunday. But that was not enough for dozens of the congregation's ...

Pastor Corey Brooks, Founder and Senior Pastor at New Beginnings Church of Chicago and the Founder and CEO of Project H.O.O.D, joins John Williams to talk about the debate over moving the curfew to ...

A federal judge awarded a Chicago church over $237,000 in attorney fees last week, ending nearly 10 years of litigation over parking between it and the city. U.S. District Judge Mary M.

Francis has tapped Cupich for key appointments — to help select bishops and as one of 48 hand-picked attendees of a global synod discussing the church’s future. Chicago-born Wilton Gregory was ...

As Europe and the rest of the Western world have seen the number of Catholics drop, the Catholic church has been growing in Africa, Asia and South America. Chicago’s Catholic population remains ...

As it has done for the last several years, St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church in Elgin offered Christians a unique way to start the Lenten season by dispensing ashes via a drive-thru lane rather ...

The Colossal Woolly Mouse, as they're calling it, is the result of gene editing that integrates some of the mammoth's cold weather features, such as its thicker coat, into mice. While they're ...

The week leading up to the holiday begins with the 26th Annual Siamsa na nGael on Monday, March 10, beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Chicago Symphony ... at Old St Patrick's Church, including ...