Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 8, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

State funding for the Double up Food Bucks Program, a one-to-one match to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

A Linn County jury took only 90 minutes to convict a Hiawatha man of human trafficking a 17-year-old Dubuque girl. The teen ...

UMB Financial Corporation acquired Heartland Financial USA. Here's how that will impact Abilene, Amarillo, Lubbock First Bank ...

A proposed five-year moratorium on new state-licensed casinos in Iowa will not be passed into law, a key legislator said ...