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

Ezike, a regular face on Illinois TV screens in the worst days of the pandemic, acknowledged she violated the state's ...

As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in ...

The city’s cultural arts department increased grants to artists during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with an arts economy in ...

Total funding for Chicago startups was $2.5 billion last year, up 3% from 2023, research firm PitchBook and the National ...

She has been fined for violating a state revolving-door ethics law when she left her job as director of the Illinois ...

Former Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike, who led the agency during the height of the COVID-19 ...

Despite the AI hype, the systems require consistent monitoring and staffing to put in place and maintain. The process can be ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Illinois is seeing a surge ... is arriving later than it has in the past two years. After the COVID-19 pandemic, annual waves of influenza during the colder months increased ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois' former top doctor has been fined by the state ethics commission. Dr. Ngozi Ezike lead the Illinois Department of Public Health during the COVID-19 pandemic. She later ...

Former Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike, who led the agency during the height of the COVID-19 ...

Programs partly funded by the flow of opioid settlement cash are beginning to turn the tide, experts and preliminary data ...