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Several volunteers and local history buffs gathered around David Strother’s 1954 headstone to find out for certain if he and his family lay underneath.

Chicago attorney Alan Mills has a client on the Prisoner Review Board’s clemency docket in April. His hearing has been indefinitely postponed because there is no longer a quorum on the PRB.

Kristen Schorsch covers public health and Cook County for WBEZ.

U.S. health officials have approved a groundbreaking pancreatic cancer drug that offers a new approach to treating the deadly form of cancer, by blocking a protein that fuels tumor growth in the vast majority of cases.

Number of families receiving federal benefits such as Medicaid and SNAP is declining

Here are the top stories we covered this week (July 24-28, 2017) on GLT and WGLT.org.Police Advisory Board ApprovedThe Bloomington City Council approved…

Many of America's communities are changing, and so is how voters think about what matters most to them and whom they want their leaders to be.

Data shows that the police's disproportionate use of force is associated with the fact that it is hard to prosecute officers for wrongful killings — and one possible reason for that is police unions.

The Kincade Fire to the north and the Maria Fire in the south are 80% contained and should be fully under control this week. Evacuation orders for about 190,000 Californians have been lifted.

Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle, both African-American women, got the most votes out of 14 candidates in Chicago's mayoral election Tuesday night. They'll head to a runoff election on April 2.