More than half of the 32 people in Sangamon County newly identified as infected with COVID-19 Tuesday were younger than 30.None of the 32 people were hospitalized, and they brought the total in the county to 868 cases during the pandemic.
Elisabeth Gantt, a 1958 graduate of Blackburn College, has made a $2 million gift to the college's Gantt/Rohatsch Scholarship in honor of her late husband, R.
A lawyer representing former state historian Samuel Wheeler said Wheeler was never told of any problems with his job performance before being fired this month.
Registration for Springfield School District 186 students is due Friday and families need to indicate what model their child will be enrolled in for the school year.
Simmons Cancer Institute at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine will hold its 12th annual butterfly release virtually due to COVID-19 on Friday.
"Largely absent from these scenes of destruction are even superficial attempts by the rioters to connect their actions to George Floyd's death or any legitimate call for reform,"Attorney General William Barr said of the Portland protests.
President Donald Trump pushed unproven claims that an anti-malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, is an effective treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
