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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces new proof-of-vaccination requirements for the city during a news conference at City Hall on Dec. 21, 2021, in Chicago.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot mandates proof of vaccination for patrons of restaurants, gyms, entertainment venues amid surge of COVID-19 omicron cases

December 24, 2021 at 11:53 a.m.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday said the city will require all restaurants, gyms and entertainment venues to check the vaccination status of patrons age 5 and older, the latest...

Margaret Orozco pushes her bike to get tested for coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020.

COVID-19 testing demand is up as holiday looms and Illinois sees most single-day cases since Dec. 1, 2020

December 21, 2021 at 10:40 a.m.

With five days to go before Christmas, Cristian Ruiz rushed out with her three children Monday morning to get them all tested for COVID-19 due to a school exposure, joining...

The DePaul Blue Demons play against the Texas Southern Lady Tigers on Nov. 9, 2021, at Wintrust Arena in Chicago.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs measure to allow betting on Illinois college teams, create sportsbook license for home of Chicago Sky

December 20, 2021 at 10:03 a.m.

It might have been too late for bettors to place their money on Northern Illinois University in Friday's Cure Bowl matchup with Coastal Carolina, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a...

Dr. Richard Wunderink makes his morning rounds, visiting a COVID-19 patient, in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital Feinberg Pavilion on Dec. 16, 2021.

Space in Illinois hospitals is at an all-time pandemic low, as patients flood in and workers burn out

December 17, 2021 at 4:54 p.m.

Illinois hospitals are being flooded with patients more than at any other time of the pandemic, a Tribune analysis of state data has found, with fewer beds open than during...

Cresco Labs employee Nicholas Stankus counts out cash received for a medical cannabis sale on Dec. 30, 2019.

Illinois’ top cannabis official Toi Hutchinson leaves post to head national lobbying group that helped draw up law making pot legal in state

December 15, 2021 at 6:35 p.m.

The top marijuana official in Illinois, Toi Hutchinson, is leaving her state job to work for the national lobbying group that led the push to legalize cannabis in the state....

People walk outside the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago's Loop on Dec. 15, 2021. The state of Illinois is in final negotiations to sell the Thompson Center for $70 million.

State in talks to sell Thompson Center for $70 million — but would buy back office space for $148 million

December 15, 2021 at 6:10 p.m.

The state of Illinois is in final negotiations to sell the James R. Thompson Center for $70 million to a developer who would spare one of the Loop's most iconic...

State Comptroller Susana Mendoza talks with colleagues before the governor's budget address to a joint session of the Illinois House and Senate at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield Feb. 19, 2020.

Illinois and 7 other states ask feds to freeze interest on loans used to pay unemployment benefits during pandemic

December 14, 2021 at 2:48 p.m.

Illinois and seven other states are asking the federal government to reinstate a freeze on interest that's piling up on money they borrowed to pay unemployment benefits during the early...

Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas L. Kilbride at the opening of the new Will County Courthouse in Joliet on Oct. 9, 2020.

Illinois moves to prohibit ‘dark money’ in judicial races, but it’s unclear what effect that will have on state’s free-spending campaigns

December 9, 2021 at 6:03 a.m.

With the balance of power on the Illinois Supreme Court at stake in next year's election, Democrats who control Springfield took steps this fall aimed at curbing the influence of...

Matteson Mayor Sheila Chalmers-Currin talks with reporters after Matteson's proposal to be a finalist for a possible south suburban casino license was denied on Dec. 8, 2021.

State regulators choose developers for Waukegan, south suburban casinos as gambling expansion plan crawls forward

December 9, 2021 at 6:10 a.m.

State regulators on Wednesday chose developers for two new suburban casinos, a decision that comes more than two years after Gov. J.B. Pritzker approved a massive expansion of gambling in...

Nathaniel Barajas receives a COVID-19 vaccine from registered nurse Leyda Rojas at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn on Nov. 24. Health officials say getting vaccines and booster shots are the the best way to control the spread of COVID-19 as cases grow again and the new omicron variant has emerged.

Omicron variant discovered in Chicago, marking first case detected in Illinois of latest COVID-19 version

December 7, 2021 at 7:25 p.m.

The coronavirus's omicron variant was detected for the first time in Illinois in a Chicago resident, authorities announced Tuesday, almost two weeks after discovery of the new variant first reported...

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