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Updated: 16 hours ago
|By Elaine Rojas-Castillo
The Illinois State Board of Education unveils its 2020 Report Card and the coronavirus pandemic left its mark.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 11:24 AM CDT
|By Elaine Rojas-Castillo
In its monthly meeting, the Illinois Gaming Board discussed the reasons why approval for casino licenses in several cities, including Rockford, is delayed.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2020 at 1:02 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
The daily case count is now the most cases Illinois has ever reported in one day since the start of the pandemic.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2020 at 7:08 PM CDT
|By Elaine Rojas-Castillo
Under the proposed graduated structure, six new rates, ranging from 4.75 to 7.95 percent, would tax people based on how much they earn, rather than one flat rate.
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Updated: Oct. 14, 2020 at 8:50 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
According to a new report from State Farm, Illinois ranks #11 in the country for vehicle collisions with animals.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2020 at 2:47 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
A total of 1,359,311 items were sold for the month. This comes after July 2020 saw just under $61 million in sales.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2020 at 12:42 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
Pritzker said he has sent notice to all cabinet directors to prepare for the possibility of cuts of at least 5 percent for the current fiscal year as well was to submit a potential fiscal year 2022 spending outlay with a reduction in appropriations of 10 percent.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2020 at 6:42 PM CDT
|By Elaine Rojas-Castillo
Governor J.B. Pritzker makes a stop in the Forest City to unveil a federal grant designed to help thousands of unemployed workers.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2020 at 6:27 PM CDT
|By Elaine Rojas-Castillo
A new assistance program gives Illinois homeowners struggling from the impacts of COVID-19 a helping hand in paying their mortgage.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2020 at 2:19 PM CDT
The Illinois Department of Public Health announces 1,740 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Illinois along with 27 deaths on Thursday.
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Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 3:33 PM CDT
The Illinois Department of Public Health announces 1,834 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Illinois along with 24 deaths on Thursday.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 10:41 AM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) announced that applications for rental assistance are now available for renters who have lost a job or income due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 6:52 PM CDT
|By Elaine Rojas-Castillo
As the coronavirus pandemic impacts the way education will look for the foreseeable future, the Golden Apple Foundation is partnering with schools across the state to address an issue plaguing the system: teacher shortages.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2020 at 5:46 PM CDT
|By Elaine Rojas-Castillo
A statewide business and health coalition speaks out, encouraging Illinoisans to use face masks while out and about.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2020 at 6:56 PM CDT
|By Elaine Rojas-Castillo
In his first COVID briefing since the start of phase four, Governor J.B. Pritzker lays out a new plan to keep Illinois on the right track of combating the coronavirus.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 3:45 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
16th District Representative, Adam Kinzinger, paid a visit to Northern Illinois Food Bank to see how the community market has been adjusting to the changes caused by the novel Coronavirus disease.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 9:58 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
One of Chicago’s bloodiest holiday weekends in memory ended with 14 people fatally shot — including a 7-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy — and 63 more wounded, despite a concerted effort by the police department that included an additional 1,200 officers on the streets.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2020 at 3:11 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
The new figures bring the total to 147,251 cases and 7,020 deaths so far in Illinois. The six deaths are the lowest in a 24-hour period since March 25, when three deaths were announced.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2020 at 9:49 AM CDT
The Illinois Tollway today announced TOLLING 2020, a comprehensive tolling reform package featuring a significant reduction to the initial costs faced by motorists when tolls are left unpaid. The measures also include steep reductions in fines for those with outstanding violations while formalizing the COVID-19 pandemic relief period during which no violations will be assessed for unpaid tolls.
Updated: Jun. 25, 2020 at 3:56 PM CDT
Casino and video gaming operations were indefinitely suspended on March 16, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Jun. 25, 2020 at 3:00 PM CDT
At a press conference in Chicago Wedneday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state health officials announce 894 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 41 additional deaths. The list of deaths include a Winnebago County man in his 80s, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Updated: Jun. 25, 2020 at 12:32 PM CDT
The number of nonfarm jobs decreased over-the-year in May in all fourteen Illinois metropolitan areas, with six metro areas at record low payrolls, according to preliminary data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES).
Updated: Jun. 24, 2020 at 2:10 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
Launching the state’s largest-ever broadband expansion initiative, Governor JB Pritzker announced $50 million in Connect Illinois grants to 28 projects touching every region of the state.
Updated: Jun. 24, 2020 at 10:22 AM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
A Democratic state senator from the Milwaukee area posted video from Tuesday night’s protest that he says shows the moments leading up to an attack that left him injured and suffering from a possible concussion.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 2:36 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
That brings the state total to 137,224 cases and 6,671 deaths.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 2:08 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
As summer heats up and Illinoisans hit the water to celebrate Independence Day, conservation police officers have already made 17 arrests for operating under the influence.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 1:01 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Because of the terrible toll taken by the coronavirus on older people in nursing homes and other institutions, the 93-year-old Navy veteran and his loved ones had to stay on opposite sides of a plexiglass barrier and talk by phone at the assisted-living home outside San Francisco where he is a resident.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 12:20 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
Illinois joins eight other states who have either been approved to borrow or have begun to borrow money from the federal government to continue to fulfill unemployment benefit payments.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 11:15 AM CDT
|By Hope Salman
All four regions of the state are currently on track to move into Phase 4 on June 26 as the state continues to make progress in reducing new COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. The average seven-day statewide case positivity rate has fallen to just 2.5 percent as of June 20, according to Gov. Pritzker's office.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 10:42 AM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
With COVID restrictions being lifted for elective procedures and patients returning in mass for medical treatments, surgeries have spiked and blood centers across the state are struggling to keep up with the demand for blood.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 9:49 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Nearly 500 people have joined a Facebook group that supports petitioning the city of Edwardsville to tear down a Ninian Edwards statue and also rename a plaza with his moniker, according to The Edwardsville Intelligencer.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 9:46 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
The 19th Judicial Circuit Court suspended marriages and civil unions in March to protect the health of the public but it was scheduled to start officiating weddings and civil unions — virtually — on Monday.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2020 at 2:45 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity for cases as a percent of total test from June 12–June 18 is 3 percent.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2020 at 1:34 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
All flags in the state are flying at half-staff in recognition.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2020 at 12:04 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The Schaumburg facility will be closed until July 2, WBBM-TV reported.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2020 at 11:36 AM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
The negotiations include safety provisions and increased pay for working during the pandemic for nurses not covered under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2020 at 2:49 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Though the ruling is part of a legal battle that started long before last month’s death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, it deals with many of the issues that demonstrators have raised at the widespread protests over Floyd’s death, racial inequality and police accountability.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2020 at 2:43 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity for cases as a percent of total test from June 11–June 17 is 3 percent.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2020 at 12:41 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
Jobs not in the farming industry increased by 62,200 jobs in May, based on preliminary data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and released by the Illinois Department of Employment Security.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2020 at 3:43 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
The funding aims to support programs and agencies to help working families and small businesses who have been hit the hardest by COVID-19’s economic impacts, which was compounded by recent property damage and civil unrest.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2020 at 2:47 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
IDPH is now reporting both confirmed and probable cases and deaths on its website. Reporting probable cases will help show the potential burden of COVID-19 illness and efficacy of population-based non-pharmaceutical interventions.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2020 at 11:37 AM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
In April of 2019, the state authorized 3,378 building permits. The change in value dropped $247,871,000, according to Construction Coverage.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2020 at 9:43 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
The 24-year-old Black man jumped from a vehicle opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon as officers approached a home in Beach Park.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2020 at 2:41 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
There are 26 men incarcerated at the East Moline Correctional Center who have tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2020 at 12:45 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
"Upon the advice of my doctor, I was tested yesterday and informed today that I have tested positive for COVID-19," Raoul said.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2020 at 9:43 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
The GOP contends in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago that Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s limit on in-person gatherings to battle the coronavirus curtails people’s First Amendment rights
Updated: Jun. 15, 2020 at 3:00 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
Taxpayers who have yet to file their 2019 state individual income tax returns must act by July 15 to avoid penalties and interest, according to the Illinois Department of Revenue.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2020 at 2:38 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
All 19 deaths were reported out of Cook County.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2020 at 12:21 PM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
This funding includes an additional $90 million allocated via the CARES Act, allowing the state to increase eligibility for these programs to one million income-qualified Illinoisans.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2020 at 11:54 AM CDT
|By WIFR Newsroom
In terms of the federal dependency of Illinois, the state ranks 48th for return on taxes paid to the federal government.