Search results for

NPR's Scott Simon asks Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., about Bacon's trip to Mexico to foster cooperation in ongoing trade talks.

The gunman who killed a Canadian tourist and left at least 13 people injured at Mexico's iconic Teotihuacan pyramids carried materials that were apparently related to the deadly 1999 high school shooting, authorities said Tuesday.

Several school districts in northern Illinois are reckoning with multimillion-dollar budget deficits this spring as well as cuts to classroom positions. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports on what’s causing it…

Senate Democrats threaten a partial government shutdown over DHS funding. And, the Fed defies President Trump's pressure and holds rates steady to fight inflation.

Children throughout the WNIJ listening area will be out for candy this Halloween. Here's when various communities will hold Trick-or-Treating. Algonquin:…

There were 175,000 jobs added to payrolls last month. That's about 25,000 more than economists forecast. The unemployment rate, though, edged up to 6.7 percent from 6.6 percent in January.

Chicago ranks eighth in the top 10 U.S. cities with the most traffic.That’s according to an annual index by Massachusetts-based GPS maker TomTom. Los…

Christine Sneed is a novelist, poet and short-story writer.Her first book -- the story collection Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry -- won…

The cost of gas is influenced most by the global crude oil supply and demand.