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"The Illinois Democratic Party and the Illinois House of Representatives should consider new leadership," Sen. Tammy Duckworth said.
"Each day we are losing more and more of our neighbors to this virus," Pritzker said, explaining current numbers are "unsustainable."
U.S. News’ annual list rates thousands of nursing homes nationwide based on care, staffing, rate of complaints and more.
Fifty-five more Illinoisans are dead, and hospitalizations have more than doubled since last month.
Illinois doesn't have a universal mail-in ballot tracker, but most local election authorities do. Here's where to find them.
Local election authorities reported up to 587,000 mail-in ballots had yet to be returned as of Monday. Counting them could take weeks.
"Unless the state of Illinois takes a more reasonable approach to mitigation, thousands of restaurants are at risk of permanent closure."
"We are getting close to the entire state implementing mitigation measures," state public health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said this week.
Richard William Davis traveled cross-country over five decades. The FBI said he's linked to one murder and that he may have committed more.
The Election Day monitoring is meant to deter election fraud, prevent discrimination at the polls and ensure public confidence in the vote.
The test positivity rate ticked up to 6.4 percent, while hospitalizations jumped 4.5 percent from the previous day.
Hospitalizations continued to rise across the state, jumping 11.4 percent from Thursday and up more than 24 percent from Sunday.
"We came down from Olympus, and we just became regular people talking to regular people," Daly said. "It's the best form of communication."
U.S. News this week released its annual ranking of more than 1,500 colleges around the globe.
Regions 7 and 8 will see new restrictions on businesses and social gatherings Friday, and the governor warned that more could flip back.
The president is "modeling bad behavior" by holding maskless rallies, and IL has had little help from the federal government, Pritzker said.
A new report says about 1 in 7 children nationwide are considered obese. The pandemic is only making it worse.
Illinois on Friday saw a record number of new cases, a spike in hospitalizations and its highest test positivity rate since August.
Experts now believe the coronavirus is airborne, and tiny droplets containing the virus can linger indoors for hours as aerosols.
Service is expected to start in the first half of 2021, depending on the course of the pandemic and government action.
