Faced with a record number of COVID-19 patients, some Illinois hospitals are returning to strategies similar to those they adopted in the early days of the health crisis, including limiting elective surgeries and adding more beds.

Illinois obliterated another coronavirus record Friday with 15,415 new cases of COVID-19 reported, erasing the previous record by more than 2,700 cases.With the coronavirus pandemic showing no signs of easing, Gov. JB Pritzker Friday also extended the moratorium on evictions for another 30 days.However, this latest extension comes with some new requirements aimed at preventing people who can affor...

Illinois obliterated another coronavirus record Friday with 15,415 new cases of COVID-19 reported, erasing the previous record by more than 2,700 cases.With the coronavirus pandemic showing no sign of easing, Gov. JB Pritzker Friday also extended the moratorium on evictions for another 30 days.However, this latest extension comes with some new requirements aimed at preventing people who can afford...

As COVID-19 cases surge and talks of shutdowns in Chicago and across the country resume, Americans are realizing traditional Thanksgiving get-togethers are largely off the table.

Faced with a record number of COVID-19 patients, some Illinois hospitals are returning to strategies similar to those they adopted in the early days of the health crisis, including limiting elective surgeries and adding more beds.

Illinois obliterated another coronavirus record Friday with 15,415 new cases of COVID-19 reported, erasing the previous record by more than 2,700 cases.With the coronavirus pandemic showing no signs of easing, Gov. JB Pritzker Friday also extended the moratorium on evictions for another 30 days.However, this latest extension comes with some new requirements aimed at preventing people who can affor...

Illinois obliterated another coronavirus record Friday with 15,415 new cases of COVID-19 reported, erasing the previous record by more than 2,700 cases.With the coronavirus pandemic showing no sign of easing, Gov. JB Pritzker Friday also extended the moratorium on evictions for another 30 days.However, this latest extension comes with some new requirements aimed at preventing people who can afford...

As COVID-19 cases surge and talks of shutdowns in Chicago and across the country resume, Americans are realizing traditional Thanksgiving get-togethers are largely off the table.

Faced with a record number of COVID-19 patients, some Illinois hospitals are returning to strategies similar to those they adopted in the early days of the health crisis, including limiting elective surgeries and adding more beds.

Illinois obliterated another coronavirus record Friday with 15,415 new cases of COVID-19 reported, erasing the previous record by more than 2,700 cases.With the coronavirus pandemic showing no signs of easing, Gov. JB Pritzker Friday also extended the moratorium on evictions for another 30 days.However, this latest extension comes with some new requirements aimed at preventing people who can affor...

Illinois obliterated another coronavirus record Friday with 15,415 new cases of COVID-19 reported, erasing the previous record by more than 2,700 cases.With the coronavirus pandemic showing no sign of easing, Gov. JB Pritzker Friday also extended the moratorium on evictions for another 30 days.However, this latest extension comes with some new requirements aimed at preventing people who can afford...

As COVID-19 cases surge and talks of shutdowns in Chicago and across the country resume, Americans are realizing traditional Thanksgiving get-togethers are largely off the table.

Faced with a record number of COVID-19 patients, some Illinois hospitals are returning to strategies similar to those they adopted in the early days of the health crisis, including limiting elective surgeries and adding more beds.

Emanuel, ally highlight need for overhaulOne of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's top aides privately briefed aldermen on the city's pension woes Wednesday as the mayor's closest City Council ally prepared for hearings that will put city retirement fund officials in the hot seat.

North Side funeral director one of the few in 1980s to provide services for AIDS victimsDuring the mid-1980s, when AIDS was emerging as a major health crisis, many funeral homes were reluctant to take victims of the disease.

Exec Neal Zucker buys million-dollar unit in Lake Shore Drive's Carlyle building Former Chicago Bears safety Danieal Manning , who is with the Houston Texans, has become the latest homeowner to take a hit from the housing crisis, selling his four-bedroom house in Libertyville recently for $308,500

Train rider's medical crisis, heroic attempt to save her life highlight action needed from MetraAnother Monday morning, the Metra train to town. A routine 16 minutes from Oak Park to the Loop.

As Obama spreads blame for economic crisis backward , La-La left helps him stick it to Bush 43HBO was still apologizing for putting a rubberized President George W. Bush head on a pike in the medieval fantasy show "Game of Thrones" when President Barack Obama put his predecessor's head on a pike

3-building plan, backed by Kennedys, would be biggest Chicago development since recession, financial crisisTouting what would be downtown Chicago's largest new real estate development since the 2008 financial crisis, representatives of the Kennedy family and three financial partners on Tuesday

$7 billion windfall can't stave off pension crisis, health care cuts and slashes in service — all being tackled this weekSixteen months ago, Democrats pushed through the largest income tax increase in Illinois history, an unpopular decision that was billed as a crucial step

At luncheon in Chicago, she says international system still coping with triple shock since 9/11, describes 3 major policy focus points in AfghanistanThe international system is still grappling with the triple shocks of the Sept. 11 attacks, the global economic crisis of 2008 and the Arab Spring

The last thing President Barack Obama needs is a domestic crisis of gargantuan proportions, one that threatens to swallow up the NATO Chicago summit:

Missouri judge's ruling to open group's records to church lawyers sends chill through survivors' communityA prominent activist group in the Roman Catholic Church's clergy-abuse crisis is fighting a Missouri judge's ruling to open more than two decades of correspondence with victims, lawyers

So what to do when you find yourself in the midst of a medical crisis? Getting a second opinion can help you get more information, clear up questions or confirm the direction that you're heading, experts say.

'The best of the nation leave, if they can'— I traveled to Greece to see the land of my fathers, to see its beauty and its economic crisis firsthand.

Accounting firm finds there's still room for improvement, howeverThe DuPage Water Commission has made significant strides toward cleaning up a recent financial fiasco, but the agency can benefit from further reforms that would increase transparency and improve operations, according to a report released Wednesday.

Bill's sponsor wants money to go toward rape crisis counselingSPRINGFIELD — Illinois already charges so-called sin taxes on smokes, booze and casino gambling. Now state lawmakers are thinking about imposing a $5 skin tax to get into strip clubs.

Will Jeanne Gang's inventive ideas for Cicero work in the real world?Cicero, infamous for its history of corruption, and Jeanne Gang, famous for her futuristic buildings, would seem an unlikely pair. But something unexpected has brought them together: America's foreclosure crisis.

State, Cook County team up to combat foreclosure crisisIllinois is teaming with Cook County on a trial program in which a loan fund will be created to buy vacant foreclosed homes, renovate them and resell them at low interest rates.

Ohio police officer on way to FBI job interview had right skills for shooting crisisThe fifth person on the State Street Bridge was on his cellphone with his mom when the shot was fired.