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The coronavirus pandemic has made the nerve-wracking experience of picking a college all the more difficult for Illinois’ high school students as campus visits are canceled and admission deadlines get pushed back amid the school shutdown over COVID-19 concerns.

Chicago Public Schools will distribute 100,000 electronic devices for students to use at home as the district implements a remote learning plan, officials announced Monday.

The United Center has announced the Greater Chicago Food Depository will be utilizing the United Center as a satellite storage facility in response to the increased need for food.

Wellington the penguin, who became famous when the Shedd Aquarium took their penguins on field trip around the aquarium to experience what it is like to be on the other side of the glass, made some new friends during another field trip. Over the weekend, Wellington and some the other penguins...

Assuming social distancing measures are maintained, these graphs are the forecasted gaps in available health service resources and number of deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic for each state in the United States. The charts also show projected hospital resource use based on COVID-19 deaths.

Depictions of a grim-faced Mayor Lori Lightfoot guarding the lakefront and other popular places have gone viral as memes. The Mayor, herself, is smiling about them.

Ken Grunke is executive director of the PLOWS Council on Aging, who said his group’s mission of providing meals, transportation, counseling and other support to seniors in the Palos-Orland area in the southwest suburbs is more vital than ever during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Firefighters extinguished a blaze at a soybean silo Tuesday morning on the Far South Side.

A Skokie police officer shot a man who allegedly pulled out a handgun Monday night outside a convenience in the north suburb.

Five people were shot Monday in Chicago.