Shot fired after police respond to Eighth Street gathering

The Lincoln Presidential Half Marathon is an event that usually draws 1000+ runners to downtown Springfield on the first Saturday in April every year to

In one of his daily briefings last week, Gov.

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus marched to another record-setting pace early Saturday, with nearly 1,200 deaths in 24 hours as federal emergency workers tried to answer desperate pleas for respirators from dozens of states.

Dan Frachey of Springfield said he doesn't believe in "a capricious or mercurial God." The COVID-19 pandemic has caused deaths, stripped people of their livelihoods and even shuttered places of worship.

Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Illinois have surpassed 10,000 as the state public health officials announced 1,453 new cases and an additional 33 deaths.

The CDC recommends you cover your mouth to protect yourself and others from the coronavirus. Here's a pattern and instructions to make a face mask.

*There was some tangible legislative fallout from the coronavirus outbreak last week.

Chad Newquist was in the hospital recovering from emergency gallbladder surgery when the first cases of coronavirus started to trickle in.

Did you hear about the people who decided, in the midst of this extraordinary COVID-19 crisis, that they needed to haul down from the attic, up from the basement, or out of the garage rafters - Christmas?