COVID-19 updates: Help us support small business, loans available, tax deadline, agencies need donations

Sarah Seiler Watson's dining room table now doubles as a sewing center for making face masks.

A fifth person in Sangamon County - who is not hospitalized -- tested positive for coronavirus, officials said Monday.

Unable to get enough protective equipment from the federal government, Gov. JB Pritzker is turning to Illinois companies to help.

The Illinois General Assembly on Monday began its second week of shutdown due to the spread of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, and officials said it is still uncertain when, or under what circumstances, the session will resume.

Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has become the face of the White House's scientific and medical response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, frequently appearing alongside President Donald Trump during task force news conferences. But he and the president have not always agreed on the facts surrounding the outbreak. For example, after Trump played up a drug used to treat malaria as a potential "game-changer" in the

Folk singer and songwriter Ben Bedford of Springfield had concerts lined up that would have taken him to the upper Midwest and the Canadian Maritime provinces through April.

CVS Health is hiring 50,000 workers and delivering bonuses to employees who are required to work on-site during the coronavirus pandemic.

It's a scenario few health-care leaders want to contemplate much less discuss: What if the ranks of desperately ill patients overwhelm the nation's ability to care for them?

The claim: Bill Gates told us about the coronavirus in 2015. A TED Talk video of Bill Gates has resurfaced in light of the coronavirus pandemic.