The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation issued guidance for lenders and borrowers Monday regarding debt collection during the COVID-19 pandemic.

WASHINGTON - Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans have many underlying health conditions, including asthma and heart disease, that could make them more vulnerable to complications from the coronavirus, leaving advocates, lawmakers and public health experts worried these long marginalized communities won't get equal access to tests and treatment as the outbreak spreads.

Witness Distillery, a craft whiskey distillery in Vandalia, is now making hand sanitizer. The distillery is following a recipe from the World Health Organization.

  COVID-19 claimed two more lives in central Illinois, officials said Monday. A man in his 90s who came to the emergency room at HSHS St.

  Two of the 12 residents of a Taylorville senior apartment complex who tested positive for COVID-19 are hospitalized, officials said Monday.

The claim: Sunlight kills the new coronavirus An article on a holistic health blog that has been circulating Facebook tells people to go outside to prevent catching the new coronavirus because sunlight kills it.

The claim: A provision in the coronavirus aid package gives pay raises to members of Congress Even before the House passed a $2-trillion coronavirus relief package, rumors that representatives were using the legislation to give themselves a pay raise were circulating on social media.

Carl Chan was shopping at the San Francisco Premium Outlets when he covered his mouth to cough a little.

Lincoln Land Community College is offering special assistance to students of MacMurray College displaced by the closure of the college at the end of spring semester.