Friday marked five years since a suburban hospital announced it was treating the first confirmed COVID-19 patient in Illinois ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab. Here’s what to know ...

CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible.” ...

On Jan. 24, 2020, medical officials at a Hoffman Estates hospital announced a patient there had tested positive for a ...

COVID-19 money was supposed to go to one-time expenses, not to adding positions and programs that would continue long after ...

PHILADELPHIA — As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic ...

Former Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike, who led the agency during the height of the COVID-19 ...

Total funding for Chicago startups was $2.5 billion last year, up 3% from 2023, research firm PitchBook and the National ...

The city’s cultural arts department increased grants to artists during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with an arts economy in ...

The U.S. is seeing a "quad-demic" as cases of COVID-19, flu, RSV and norovirus spread at the same time. Experts said this is ...