Friday marked five years since a suburban hospital announced it was treating the first confirmed COVID-19 patient in Illinois. At the time, it was only the second COVID case in the United States.

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

That’s according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine earlier this month, which found that 4.5% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, developed chronic fatigue. In comparison, only 0.6% of study participants who did not have COVID developed the second condition.

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

A ribbon cutting was held Monday for the Lookingglass Theatre Company's new multi-purpose lobby at its home in the Water Tower Water Works building on Michigan Avenue.

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There's some good news in math, mostly bad news in reading and lots of questions about why students are still struggling.

PHILADELPHIA — As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023. In many parts of the country, though, those decreases don’t match the public perception.

Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company reopened its doors for the first time in nearly two years with a $2 million grant from the state of Illinois, expanding its lobby and hosting the world premiere of the play Circus Quixote.

Corporate travel platform TravelPerk raised $200 million from investors including Atomico and EQT in a funding round valuing the startup at $2.7 billion.