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How stand-up Tig Notaro turned cancer into comedy.

But the leader of more than 2 million Chicago-area Catholics vows to keep working.

A controversial new billboard on the Eisenhower Expressway is trying to increase awareness of colorectal cancer with a blunt message: Hot Dogs Cause Butt Cancer.Drivers passing between the Kostner and Cicero exits while heading west won't be able to miss the sign, which includes a cartoon drawing of

Illinois insurance agencies are now forbidden to deny health coverage to insured people participating in clinical cancer trials because of a new amendment to the state's Insurance Code.Previously, companies could cancel an insured patient's medical coverage while that person receives experimental tr

Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has cancelled his travel plans indefinitely to stay with his ailing wife.Daley's former top press aide Jacqueline Heard said in an e-mail to the Associated Press that the former mayor planned to fly to Harvard University next week as a visiting fellow.

Illinois has a new environmental law that's designed to protect minorities and the poor.The Environmental Justice Act, signed by Gov.

The city of Chicago could be near the end of a five-year legal battle for control of a former industrial site with potential to help form a 24-acre park. If an eminent-domain settlement holds up, the land could be an asset for a Mexican-American area of the Southwest Side.