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Gov. JB Pritzker tested negative for COVID-19 Friday afternoon, his office announced Saturday. Pritzker and staff who attended a meeting Monday where they were exposed to someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus were self-isolating.
Illinois public health officials Saturday reported a recording-breaking 12,438 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, including an additional 76 deaths.
In the first six days of November the state has recorded more coronavirus cases than in the entire month of July.
CBS News projects Joe Biden has secured enough electoral votes to become the 46th president of the United States, defeating President Trump and capturing the White House after a bitter campaign that exposed deep divides in the country.
The two left northbound lanes of the Edens Expressway near Wilson Avenue were closed to traffic Saturday morning just before 9 a.m. due to a fatal traffic crash.
As the country awaits final election results, business owners across Chicago are waiting to take down boards they put up earlier in the week.
After coming within one degree of record high temperatures Friday there are more chances in the days ahead to make or break temperature records.
According to CBS 2 meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist, with dry, high pressure locked in place this weekend we will have plenty of sunshine and a warm, southwesterly wind flow bringing temperatures well above average
A beloved North Side restaurant worker was murdered during a robbery on his way home from work last week, and on Friday night, a 15-year-old boy stood charged with his killing.
On Friday night, new accusations surfaced saying the state did nothing to stop tens of thousands of dollars in unemployment fraud targeting a single small business.
The Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act Report for the month of October announced 3,384 coming layoffs in the state – most of them permanent, and many of them at Chicago restaurants.
A spike in COVID-19 cases is forcing a change in Crown Point, Indiana schools.
A search continued Friday night for the killer who attacked and killed a woman in a south suburban Cook County forest preserve.
Results flowed in all day Friday from four battleground states that have yet to be called in the presidential race, with Joe Biden opening leads in Georgia and in Pennsylvania, where a victory would secure a majority of electoral votes needed to win the White House.
The celebration was subdued on Friday, but the results were no less spectacular as the Great Tree was lit at Macy's on State Street.
