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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday announced the deployment of the first $46 million in the state's Business Interruption Grant program to help small businesses that have hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
DePaul University will be provided online only instruction and limiting residency hall occupancy during the fall term, as a result of a "consistently worsening national and local public health outlook" due to COVID-19.
The Illinois Department of Public Health reported another increase in cases with 1,645 new COVID-19 cases, including 16 additional confirmed deaths.
After saying on Monday that massive downtown looting was a result of anger over a police-involved shooting on the South Side, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is now saying the rampage was "a planned attack."
Mild temperatures and sunny skies are ahead.
A 45-year-old woman died after she fell off a boat overnight.
The 4-year-old girl was discovered unresponsive by the Chicago Fire Department in the first floor bedroom.
Sumner Redstone, the media legend who built what is now ViacomCBS, died Tuesday at age 97, the company confirmed in a statement Wednesday.
Two days after storms hit the Chicago area, many are still without power and left to deal with widespread damage.
A 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg early Wednesday morning on the near West Side.
Scooters are officially back on Chicago streets.
With the front through, and dry air in place, conditions will be quiet for a while.
The Ronald McDonald House in Streeterville was among the establishments targeted during looting in Chicago early Monday morning.
We spoke with minority business owner on the Magnificent Mile who said she had plenty of video evidence. But she now worries that her business won't survive long enough to see the looters punished.
