Illinois

Self-checkout kiosks are disappearing in stores across America due to rising retail theft. Louisiana and Texas could be losing them too.

They are going to need a whole team of people to clean up this neighborhood.

Many states have specific rules on what roadkill you can claim. One of those states has made it completely illegal to take home animals you find along the road.

This year the US will start to see a historical emergence of cicadas.

Almost no one was prepared. It was early morning in a small Illinois town on March 19, 1948 when the ominous clouds rolled in. A monster tornado dropped onto an unsuspecting Illinois town leaving only 20% of it standing once the winds subsided.

It's a fascinating sight, but I'm not certain that I'd like to be the person seeing it. New video shows a spinning funnel cloud over Illinois and the viewpoint is straight up into the whirling vortex.

You never know what you might find when you're hiking in the woods of Illinois. A new exploration uncovered what appears to be a forgotten family cemetery hidden and abandoned for over a century.

You know you're in a massive hail storm when your gutters seem to turn into a snow machine. That's exactly what happened this week during a storm in Manteno, Illinois.

No matter what you might have seen in a movie, trains do not normally just plow through flood water. That harrowing scenario was a reality recently as a train in Illinois was spotted carefully making its way through Mississippi River flood waters that stood in its way.

There was a huge dust storm that completely overwhelmed drivers on I-55 in Illinois today. There are reports of crashes and stopped traffic with the pictures to prove it.

America's first serial killer terrorized Chicago in the 1890s, more than 130 years ago.

Dozens of gruesome murders, horribly tragic suicides and many other strange deaths make Chicago's Congress Plaza Hotel a possibly terrifying place to stay.