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Illinois student-athletes ramped up their push for fall sports Sunday with a rally outside Gov. Pritzker’s Chicago home. NBC 5’s Trina Orlando reports.

One day after plans were announced for a class action lawsuit against the Illinois High School Association, seeking for fall sports to resume, several student-athletes and their parents took their fight to outside Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Gold Coast Sunday. “We’re trying to get his attention,” said Dave Ruggles, a parent who is also a plaintiff in the lawsuit. “We’re...

With the nation racing to come to grips with centuries of racial sins, officials plan to remove the Capitol lawn statue of Stephen A. Douglas, whose forceful 19th century politics helped forge modern-day Illinois but who also profited from slavery. Just inside the Statehouse hangs another revered depiction of an Illinois legend — and longtime Douglas rival — who expressed white…

Parents and players protested Saturday outside a state building in Chicago, pleading with Gov. J.B. Pritzker to lift his fall ban on some popular high school sports. Players in jerseys and varsity jackets chanted, “Let us play!” outside the Thompson Center. “It’s our way of escape,” said Myles Mooyoung, a senior football player at Kenwood Academy High School in...

Student-athletes, parents and supporters gathered in suburban McCook on Sunday, calling for the Illinois High School Association to let them participate in fall sports and return to the classroom. In July, the IHSA announced its plan for the 2020-21 school year, moving some fall sports to the spring and allowing others to continue as planned with restrictions. Cross country, girls...

Student-athletes and parents gathered in suburban McCook Sunday to push the Illinois High School Association to let them play and let them learn in the classroom. NBC 5’s Trina Orlando reports.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced last month that the state had been further divided from four into 11 separate regions, allowing for a more focused approach to battling coronavirus as the pandemic continues.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced last month that the state had been further divided from four into 11 separate regions, allowing for a more focused approach to battling coronavirus as the pandemic continues.

Suburban Cook County is now at a “warning level” for transmission of the coronavirus, according to data from the Illinois Department of Public Health. As of Friday, suburban Cook County was at 112 positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, well above the state-established target rate of 50 cases per 100,000, officials with the Cook County Department of Public Health stated….

Gov. Pritzker has announced new restrictions in Kankakee and Will counties after the positivity rate exceeded 8 percent for three days in a row. NBC 5’s Trina Orlando reports.

The University of Illinois at Chicago is enrolling up to 1,000 people in a national clinical trial starting Monday of a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. NBC 5’s Lauren Petty reports.

With the fate of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s graduated income tax program in the voters’ hands, the governor is spending more than $56 million of his own money to drum up support in the form of a new ad campaign. Come Nov. 3, voters will weigh in on a state constitutional amendment allowing a graduated tax structure, which Pritzker has called...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker plans to extend Illinois’ evictions moratorium before it expires at the end of the week, his office said Thursday. “The Governor will extend the moratorium when the current executive orders expire,” Pritzker spokeswoman Jordan Abudayyeh said in an email. The moratorium’s executive order is tied to the state’s disaster proclamation, which has to be renewed monthly,...

With the fate of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s graduated income tax program in the voters’ hands, the governor is spending more than $56 million of his own money to drum up support in the form of a new ad campaign. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports

A family from suburban Evanston is moving to Texas in wake of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s decision to add new restrictions for recreational sports, including school-based sports. Jaylon Gibson, the ninth ranked guard in the state of Illinois, says he’s moving to Texas just in time for his senior year to follow his “basketball dreams.” Under new guidance released...

With more and more Americans getting swabbed for the coronavirus, patients are having to wait up to two weeks — and in some cases even longer — to receive their test results. And Illinois is no exception. At a news conference Monday in Quincy, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker explained that national laboratories are dealing with an overwhelming number of tests…

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered a coronavirus update from a downstate Illinois county recently named one of four to reach a “warning level” during the pandemic.

One of Illinois’ 11 health care regions is “dangerously close” to seeing more restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus, Gov. J.B. Pritzker warned Wednesday.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Wednesday that the state will be further divided from four into 11 separate regions to allow health officials to apply a more focused approach to each area’s coronavirus response as the pandemic continues.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Wednesday that the state will be further divided from four into 11 separate regions to allow health officials to apply a more focused approach to each area’s coronavirus response as the pandemic continues.