More than 4,000 people have now died from COVID-19 in Illinois, state public health officials said on Friday.

A downstate judge on Friday denied the attorney general office's request to move to Sangamon County a Republican representative's lawsuit challenging Gov.

Scammers continue to try and capitalize off people even while the country faces devastating economic affects from the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Madison Regan of Springfield isn't one of the more than 965,000 Illinoisans who have qualified for unemployment benefits since the week ending March 21 when the state's stay-at-home order took effect to slow the novel coronavirus spread.

COVID-19 has emerged at three of the four state-run homes for veterans, including a significant outbreak in a home outside Kankakee where testing has found 52 cases in residents and workers, with one fatality, Illinois officials said Thursday.

No injuries were reported after a small plane crashed Friday afternoon into an open field north of Chatham.

Albert Berard was part of the first wave of U.S. soldiers who stormed France's Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 4, 1944.

A woman in her 60s who who died while a patient at Memorial Medical Center became the 26th Sangamon County death linked to COVID-19, the county health department reported Friday.

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has issued a rare mea culpa, saying he mistakenly accused the Obama administration of not leaving a plan for President Donald Trump on how to deal with a pandemic.