Ezike, a regular face on Illinois TV screens in the worst days of the pandemic, acknowledged she violated the state's ...

COVID-19 money was supposed to go to one-time expenses, not to adding positions and programs that would continue long after ...

Former Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike, who led the agency during the height of the COVID-19 ...

Total funding for Chicago startups was $2.5 billion last year, up 3% from 2023, research firm PitchBook and the National ...

Illinois business are no longer allowed to pay employees with disabilities sub-minimum wages under the ‘Dignity in Pay Act’ signed into law Tuesday by Gov. JB Pritzker.

As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in ...

Carter’s resignation comes as a debate brews in Springfield about whether to combine the CTA with Metra, Pace and the ...

Jan. 20, 2025, marks five years since the CDC reported the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 on American soil.

The city’s cultural arts department increased grants to artists during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with an arts economy in ...

asked the federal government to revoke its authorization of all COVID-19 vaccines in May 2021, just as vaccinated Americans began returning to a sense of normalcy after pandemic lockdowns.