A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life.

Here’s a link to the story at the Southern Illinoisan.

Champaign-Urbana owes its prominence to the University of Illinois, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign owes its existence to Clark Robinson Griggs.

Here’s a link to the story at the Southern Illinoisan.

CHICAGO (AP) — A fast-moving winter storm was expected to blanket much of the central Midwest with snow on Sunday at the end of the Thanksgiving weekend, grounding hundreds of flights and forcing the closure of part of a major highway on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

Here’s a link to the story at the Southern Illinoisan.

Shoppers heading online to purchase holiday gifts will find they’re being charged sales tax at some websites where they weren’t before. The reason: the Supreme Court

Here’s the link to the story at the Southern Illinoisan.

Thousands of fellow police officers, and friends and family members of slain Chicago police Officer Samuel Jimenez waited in line under a heated tent on a cold and snowy Sunday to attend his wake less than a week after the young officer was killed by a gunman at a Near South Side hospital.

Here’s a link to the story at the Chicago Tribune.