How to stay COVID-19 safe as restrictions ease

A small plane entered into a "right descending spiral" before crashing into a Macoupin County farm field last month, killing all four men on board.

More than 45 residents and staff at a Jacksonville rehabilitation and long-term care facility have tested positive for COVID-19, Morgan County health officials reported Thursday.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said Thursday it was a "mistake" to accompany President Donald Trump and other top administration officials on a walk to historic St.

It may have started with the youth of Springfield, but the cause of Black Lives Matter has found new allies in city government in the past few days as leaders search for the proper response to the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - During a hearing Tuesday on whether to declare racism a public health crisis in Ohio, a Republican state senator referred to "the colored population" and questioned whether African Americans get COVID-19 more often because they do not wash their hands as much.

Illinoisans will have further protections from utility shutoffs after the current moratorium expires when the state moves into the next phase of reopening.

CHICAGO - More than a dozen Chicago police officers and supervisors were captured on video "lounging" inside a congressional campaign office last month as people vandalized and stole from nearby businesses while protests and unrest spread across the city, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday.

WASHINGTON - At a moment of national reckoning over racism in America, President Donald Trump is increasingly becoming a bystander.

The rapidly unfolding movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd's death has extended to statues of slave traders, imperialists and explorers around the world, including Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes and Belgium's King Leopold II.