Riley O'Neil and Joe Dredge in the morning

It turns out the most dangerous animal in Wisconsin is one most people have walked right past on a hiking trail without thinking twice.

Illinois is cutting its state sales tax on back-to-school shopping for 10 days this August — and it's the first time this has happened since 2022.

The first long-range fall forecasts are in for Northern Illinois — and a few sources are already agreeing on what kind of autumn we might be in for.

That screech you always hear from bald eagles in movies? It's not actually a bald eagle. The real story behind that sound is genuinely surprising.

Wasps get a bad reputation, and honestly, a lot of it is earned — but there's more going on with these backyard insects than most people realize.

The Perseid meteor shower alone is worth staying up for, but this August, Illinois gets two more sky events on top of it.

A Western Springs man lost $35,000 after a single phone call — and it all started with a warning about missed jury duty.

Two hundred million buttered, toasted buns in a single year. That's not a fluke — that's a following. And now there's an award to go with it.

Four tornadoes touched down across the Chicago suburbs Monday — and that's just the latest chapter in what's already become the most active tornado year in Illinois history.

Illinois just joined more than 35 other states in telling students to put the phone away — and this time, it's the law.