Gary Marx

They found him wrapped in a Superman T-shirt, his burned body so tiny that first responders thought he was 9 months old. Authorities would later discover that 4-year-old Manuel Aguilar...

Facing opposition from local farmers, one of the state's largest pork producers has pulled its application to build a hog confinement in downstate Fulton County, handing opponents a rare victory...

Gravel crunching beneath their wheels, cars and pickup trucks pulled up at twilight around the one-room schoolhouse in Bernadotte Township. A powerful pork company was planning a 20,000-hog confinement near...

Illinois' large hog confinements are sealed from the public for biosecurity reasons and often set back on private roads. Their low-paid labor force includes local residents and immigrants who have...