Creativity on a wearable canvas just might net Springfield High School a big reward.

Public health officials on Thursday said 138 more people in Illinois have died from COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths to 3,111.Also, 2,641 additional people have tested positive for the disease in the past 24 hours after 17,783 tests were administered.

Nursing home workers at 64 facilities across Illinois - including two in Rockford - will not go on strike now that a tentative agreement with nursing home owners has been reached.

Another four residents of The Villas East nursing home have died from COVID-19, Sangamon County officials said Thursday.

If the Illinois State Fair doesn't happen this year, the economic impact will be felt both near and far beyond the fair's gates.

European astronomers have found the closest black hole to Earth yet, one of many more undetected black holes that could be found in the future.

More than 74,000 additional Illinoisans filed initial unemployment claims last week.

As major European countries cheered a drop in coronavirus death rates this week, a top United Nations official warned of a looming crisis in poor countries that could "boomerang" back to rich nations - unless they help contain it.  "No one's safe until everybody's safe," said Mark Lowcock, the UN under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs.  He said many low-income countries could see coronavirus infections peak in the next three to six months,

WASHINGTON - A member of the military who works at the White House tested positive for the coronavirus, prompting new tests of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence that proved negative, administration officials said Thursday.