GRANITE CITY, Ill. (AP) — A tornado last month damaged at least 160 buildings in the southwestern Illinois community of Granite City.

Two Illinois State Police troopers were injured Sunday night when their squad car crashed into a vacant building during a chase on the city's Far South Side.

Tucked away in the northwest corner of Illinois, about 100 miles from Chicago’s wallet-draining gravity, sits Freeport – a charming small city where $1,200 a month isn’t just surviving money, it’s ...

This ghost town is likely to stick around for a while. The cluster of abandoned buildings is owned by Riverlight Development LLC, a Fort Myers-based company that has hit a snag in its ambitious ...

The city of Toledo has scores of abandoned and neglected buildings. Ones that have fallen into such disrepair that they are a danger even to emergency ...

Rutland has shut down three apartment buildings in two weeks, city officials said Friday. City Building Inspector Mark Sadakierski said they completed shutting down 133 Grove St., which has gotten the ...

City Council will vote on June 16 as to whether to end negotiations with the Peebles Corp. over the old Durham Police Department headquarters "Part of our issue has been we have been moving the ...

Several Milwaukee County supervisors announced on Wednesday, June 4, that they will raise a toast to the All City Towing crew that removed the abandoned boat from Milwaukee's lakefront.

German and Portuguese police Wednesday continued their search near the Praia da Luz resort in Portugal for Madeleine McCann, the British child missing since 2007.

Following state lawmakers’ failure to pass a mass transit funding bill, Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the Illinois General Assembly Tuesday to steer clear of taxes that hammer working people, and ...

In the absence of private sector action, which often fails to take hold, city officials may implement policies to remove blighted properties and stabilize neighborhoods. That’s what Detroit has ...