Another bout of selling gripped the U.S. stock market Friday, as anxiety mounts over whether the frenzy behind a swift, meteoric rise in GameStop and a handful of other stocks will damage Wall Street overall. The S&P 500 dropped 1.9%, giving the ben...

Illinois surpassed 19,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths Thursday, as 103 more deaths were reported by state health officials, assuring January will be the state's third-deadliest month of the pandemic despite a significant drop in new cases throughout t...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - European and North American cyber cops have joined forces to disrupt what may be the world's largest network for seeding malware infections. The operation appears to strike a major blow against criminal gangs that have ...

Illinois reported its highest tally of COVID-19 vaccine shots in arms - 53,628 - on Tuesday, as new cases of the respiratory disease totaled 3,751 and 81 more people died, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported Wednesday. Meanwhile, feder...

NEW YORK (AP) - The baseball Hall of Fame won't have any new players in the class of 2021 after voters decided no one had the merits - on the field or off - for enshrinement in Cooperstown. Curt Schilling, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were the clos...

BRUSSELS - The European Union on Tuesday warned pharmaceutical companies that have developed coronavirus vaccines with EU aid that it must get its shots on schedule, a day after the bloc threatened to impose export controls on vaccines produced with...

State officials eased COVID-19 restrictions in DuPage, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties Tuesday, allowing indoor dining at restaurants and bars with capacity limits. The move to less strict “Tier 1” COVID-19 mitigations also allows gatherings of 25 p...

Teachers in Elgin Area School District U-46 say the district's hybrid learning plan is creating more inequities, especially for Latino students, and not adequately addressing pandemic-related safety concerns. Latinos comprise 55% of the 37,241 stude...