Three people, including a 14-year-old girl, were injured during a shooting at a South Side dance studio Sunday night, according to Chicago police.

The latest numbers released by the Illinois Gaming Board show bettors in the state wagered more than $285 million on sports contests in September.

The Cook County sheriff’s office is cancelling all in-person visits to the county jail starting Monday because of the recent spike in coronavirus cases, the sheriff’s office said Sunday.

At-Large City Councilman Sid Ruckriegel on Sunday joined a growing field of candidates for Peoria mayor."I love Peoria and believe City Hall can do much better to improve the perception of opportunity and vision in our city," he said.Bringing together diverse perspectives will be a key theme in his campaign, he suggested – repeatedly returning to the theme that Peoria is a city in which, "wh...

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 10,631 newly confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the state Sunday, including 72 additional deaths.It marked the 10th day in a row case totals have exceeded 10,000. The 7-day rolling positivity rate in the state is 12.8%.As of Saturday night, 5,474 people in Illinois were reported ...

A rollover crash near the Gold Coast neighborhood sent one person to the hospital and slowed traffic Sunday night on Lake Shore Drive, officials said.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot doubles down on property tax hike in private meeting, tells Chicago aldermen not to record her

WYOMING — A long-weekend break in classes in the Stark County School District appears to have succeeded in snapping a string of COVID-19 cases that had threatened to disrupt the in-school instruction that has taken place for the past 13 weeks, according to the top administrator.After six students and three staff had earlier tested positive for the disease in instances of outside community tr...

LACON — Marshall County has reported its fifth death related to COVID-19, while neighboring Bureau County has reached a total of 27 deaths, public health officials announced Sunday.And those deaths are accompanied by new cases that are "rising at an alarming rate" in the area served by the Bureau, Putnam & Marshall County Health Departments, according to the administrator of the agency t...

One of the perennial certainties of any election season is how pundits chew over the politics of losing campaigns rather than discuss the policy implications of winning campaigns.The biggest reason is the cleanliness of who’s up and who’s down, as opposed to a messy dive into the greasy nuance of what victory means to legislative sausage making.That is especially so for U.S. farm polic...

MARRIAGESTazewell County* Ryan Bridson, 41, Maquon; Lanell Demmin, 39, Hanna City.* Zakry Cummings, 22, Bedford, Ind.; Marissa Barber, 21, Peoria.* Evan DeHart, 21, Danvers; Danielle Atherton, 20, Minier.* Brandon Horchem, 24, Pekin; Payton Colvin, 21, South Pekin.* David Hughes, 81, Washington; Priscilla Lewis, 78, Peoria.* Jerad Litherland, 35; Cydnee Martin, 32; both Tremont. ...

Two killed in Lake County crash near Wisconsin border.

The family of Ryan Bost is asking anyone information about his murder to come forward.

The retrial date for former Portage Mayor James Snyder, facing a soliciting bribes charge, has been pushed back to late January.

The victim, who is in her late teens, did not know her attacker, according to police.

Evanston officials on Friday issued an advisory stay-at-home order for residents due to rising COVID-19 numbers.

Police were searching for someone who shot a man in Lake County Saturday.

SPRINGFIELD – A candidate concession speech is an important rite in a democracy that is done not for the benefit of the winner or the loser but as a means of honoring the voters and our system of government.Sometimes the speech is done at a podium before a crowd, but more often than not it happens with the loser calling the winner with a word of congratulations."I remember running for the le...

PEORIA — With the rate of positive COVID-19 tests increasing rapidly, the Peoria area might be following the trend of regions that have been unsuccessful in curtailing the spread of the coronavirus.That failure, Gov. JB Pritzker warned on Thursday, could mean a new statewide stay-at-home order to bring a halt to the ...

Especially at Christmastime, I don’t know how Jimmy Binkley would’ve been able to deal with not being able to visit his "babies."That’s the endearing term the Peoria piano man used to describe his beloved ...

BRADFORD —On Election Day afternoon, Kassie King received a phone call at her office desk at an auction house in the small Stark County town of Toulon.It was her maternal grandmother calling with disturbing news about her little brother, 13-year-old Kaden Wall."She told me to sit down and stay calm," King, 26, said. "She said there was an ...

PEORIA – It was a good summer.Fran Dickson entertained family and friends at the above-ground pool in her backyard that had been a party magnet for decades. She was the welcoming ringmaster of the summer circus, the grandma who oversaw a little bit of swimming and a lot of fellowship, often accompanied by easy laughter and a couple of cold beers.Actually, it was better than good."She had a g...

Board members say they try not to take the taunts personally and know everyone is stressed.

Language barriers for non-English-speaking patients can complicate care and add stress for patients and their families.

A 12-year-old boy was shot and seriously wounded Saturday night in the Roseland neighborhood, officials said.

As Mayor Lori Lightfoot works to build support for her 2021 budget, she has withdrawn her plan to fire hundreds of city workers to close Chicago’s $1.2 billion deficit. Lightfoot’s city spending plan, unveiled last month, called for hundreds of workers to lose their jobs as a cost-saving measure, but the move has been met with fierce resistance from aldermen and labor unions.

WASHINGTON – Gary Manier, the longest-serving mayor in city history, announced Saturday he's running for re-election.Manier was first elected mayor in 2001 and is serving his fifth term.It isn't known if Manier will have opposition in the April 6 election. At least one other candidate has taken out petitions. This will be the first time Manier has run for mayor since Washington city election...

A victim was pronounced dead Saturday afternoon following a fight involving several people in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

Springfield and Sangamon County enacted full COVID-19 mitigation measures Friday, just days after local elected officials acknowledged that an earlier "phased" plan that allowed indoor dining and bar service to continue in defiance of Gov. JB Pritzker’s orders had failed to contain the spread of the virus.With COVID-19 cases in the region growing at one of the fastest rates in the country, c...

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.