Two more COVID-19-related deaths were reported in central Illinois on Thursday. It was the second consecutive day that there was a death in Sangamon County.

Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate are proposing a nine-bill package of ethics legislation that they want the General Assembly to take up during the veto session later this year.

The Illinois State Fair was supposed to kick off Thursday evening with the Twilight Parade.

The concept of a Route 66 sign at Motorheads Bar, Grill & Museum on Toronto Road just off Interstate 55 began as a sketch on a piece of paper in Ron Metzger's restaurant a couple of years ago.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump declared Thursday that he opposes additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service, acknowledging that his position would starve the agency of money Democrats say it needs to process an anticipated surge in mail-in ballots during the coronavirus pandemic.

State Sen. Terry Link was charged in federal court Thursday with a felony count of tax evasion.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt the annexation of occupied land sought by the Palestinians for their future state.

CHICAGO - Two words summed up Tamani Jayasinghe's exuberance for the first Indian American and Black woman to run for vice president: "Kamala Aunty.

Illinois has now recorded more than 200,000 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic first arrived in the state.