The murder trial for a Springfield man accused of fatally shooting a motorcyclist in 2017 has been set in Sangamon County court.

Another 25 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported in Sangamon County Wednesday, bringing the county total to 740.Meanwhile, Enos Elementary School and the SCOPE program are closed until Monday so the building can be deep cleaned after an employee tested positive Wednesday, a district spokeswoman said.

The Ball-Chatham school board is expected to sign off on a plan for return to school in the fall at its meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System led a study where most of their patients took prednisone, another steroid in the same family as dexamethasone, and found patients with high inflammation levels were associated with a 75% reduction in risk of going on mechanical ventilation or dying.

An attempt to start Unit 33 for the first time since last November was a bust after a short was discovered in the generator's rotor.

State leaders on Wednesday gave tentative support to a Trump administration plan to send more than 200 federal agents to Chicago, although officials said they would also be on guard for any violations of civil liberties.

CHICAGO - A park on Chicago's West Side will be stripped of the name of slave owner Stephen Douglas and may be renamed for abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a city's parks commission decided Wednesday.

China vowed to retaliate Wednesday after the United States abruptly ordered the closure of its consulate in Houston, a move that further inflamed tensions between the two superpowers.