The 13th Congressional District race for the U.S. House was seen as a key national race even before the COVID-19 pandemic, before people took to the streets over police-community relations, and before the president came under fire from past top aides and generals.

"I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning, my position," Geoffrey S. Berman said.

A 29-year-old Chicago man was killed after crashing his vehicle into a building in Mount Pulaski early Saturday morning after evading a traffic stop.

The outcry over cancellation of the Illinois State Fair didn't seem as loud as you might have expected.

The campaign's communications director, Tim Murtaugh, said in a statement that "quarantine procedures" were immediately initiated and no staff member who tested positive would attend the event.

The ruling clears the path for a broader election-year readership and distribution of a memoir, due out Tuesday, that paints an unflattering portrait of President Donald Trump's foreign policy decision-making.

An official at the embassy in Kabul said up to 20 people were infected, the majority of them Nepalese Gurkhas, who provide embassy security.

Today's column is the last one I will be writing as rabbi at Temple Israel.

Springfield's most notable laureate, Vachel Lindsay, once wrote, "In this, the City of my Discontent, sometimes there comes a whisper.