The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

CHICAGO — It may be some time before people can walk through Illinois hospitals, doctors’ offices and nursing homes barefaced, despite mask mandates dropping on buses, planes and trains last week.

Troopers responded to the shooting about 3:25 a.m. and found the man with injuries not considered life threatening, Illinois state police said.

Darren Bailey’s conservative campaign is targeting those he says have been forgotten and left behind. “The Republican establishment and the Democrats, they don’t have any idea some of these people exist and what they’re thinking,” he told the Sun-Times. “I think that what we do here in Illinois,…

CHICAGO — Hundreds of Illinois school districts are awaiting their share of $87 million in funding mistakenly allocated to Chicago Public Schools, which has been asked to reimburse the state for the overpayment.

The student-led protest was among dozens of across Illinois that called on legislators to prioritize laws that slow the effects of climate change.

Three other Illinois counties have also seen their risk level elevated from “low” to “medium” under the latest CDC guidelines. The entire state was in the “low” category until about a month ago when coronavirus cases began to rebound.

Six Chicago-area candidates running for office on a platform of baseless claims about fraud in the 2020 election came up short on their nominating petitions, officials say. But the group’s gubernatorial candidate countered that they “would be embarrassed to be on a fake ballot with fake…

Heroin and marijuana have long been Mexican cartels’ big moneymakers in Chicago. But DEA cocaine seizures rose 50% in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana in the year ending Sept. 30 and keep rising in the Chicago area.

The $10,000 came from a hospital company that won support in Springfield from Speaker Chris Welch. ShawnTe Raines-Welch’s spokesman says the money was unsolicited, spotted as violating a ban on contributions from outside Illinois and quickly given back.

If ComEd’s request isn’t pared down a bit, ratepayers will pay a whopping 49% more for the delivery of electricity than they did before the Legislature approved the so-called formula rate in 2011.

Pritzker held a last-minute Chicago news conference to take a victory lap over the upgrade. The Democratic governor, facing a reelection battle, has spotlighted the state’s fiscal rating upgrades and debt paydowns during his tenure in at least one campaign TV ad.