Fall Out Boy is donating $100,000 to the Chicago Community COVID-19 Response Fund, the band announced Friday. The fund is a partnership between the City of Chicago and United Way of Metro Chicago to deploy resources to agencies that can help individuals and families impacted by the coronavirus across the Chicago region. The Fall Out Boy Fund started in 2017…

A Chicago couple is hoping to help victims of domestic violence who need temporary housing during the coronavirus crisis. Ivan Orlovic and his wife Kelly Mack own a house in the city’s Lakeview neighborhood, about a mile from Wrigley Field. For the past year, they’ve been renting out their first floor unit through Airbnb. The unit was originally booked...

Chicago’s outdoor summer events, including Lollapalooza, face some uncertainty in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. On Wednesday morning, Mayor Lori Lightfoot addressed what could happen with the city’s largest outdoor musical festival, Lollapalooza. “Lollapalooza is on schedule,” Lightfoot said, with the festival four months away. She added that it would be “foolhardy for me to say anything about...

First responders in Chicago now have a place to stay temporarily, without having to return home and risk the health of their families during the coronavirus crisis. The Hotel Essex in the South Loop is offering their 274 rooms for police officers, firefighters and paramedics who are in direct contact with the public. Dispatchers and 911 operators are also eligible….

The controversy over social distancing has hit the Chicago Transit Authority after a rider shared a photo showing a packed train. Seth McKonly, who works at O’Hare International Airport and is considered to be an essential employee, took pictures on a CTA Blue Line train around 1:30 p.m. Monday on his way to work. He tweeted two photos, which...

NBC 5’s Patrick Fazio has details on new concerns arising when it comes to social distancing on a packed train.

The Salvation Army Metropolitan Division has been designated as the lead agency for mass care in response to the coronavirus crisis. Its Emergency Disaster Services division, known as EDS, is providing food to those considered to be among the most vulnerable in quarantine in the city of Chicago. “Traditionally, it’s a bowl of hot soup or chili or stew…...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has reached out to two major unions in the city to try to help find child care services for hospital staff and health care workers. Lightfoot has reached out to officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and the SEIU to express interest in having members care for the children of those medical workers during the ongoing…

Many Chicagoans have been social distancing and the city remains under a stay-at-home order, but cases continue to rise. Why? According to Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Allison Arwady, health officials expect that cases will continue to rise “for some time.” “At this point what I would say is that we are on the upward trajectory,” she said Tuesday….

Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, speaks during the March 23 daily coronavirus briefing.

Three Federal Aviation Administration technicians at Chicago’s Midway Airport air traffic control tower have tested positive for coronavirus, health officials told NBC News Tuesday. The control tower at Midway was cleaned in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, the health officials said, after the employees tested positive on Tuesday. Employees at the airport remain on the...

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin briefs residents on what he knows about the coronavirus case in Chicago. Durbin said the 60-year-old woman was recently in China taking care of her ill father.