GOP lawmakers want hearings into IDES

A Rochester man pleaded guilty Friday to making a threat against U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis last November.

Sangamon County public health officials reported 22 additional positive cases of COVID-19 on Friday.

Springfield resident Larry Luster II has teamed with former House deputy majority leader Art Turner II to form a new firm, GR Consulting.

A pair of Springfield bars have temporarily closed after cases of COVID-19 were reported. The Curve Inn, 3219 S.

WAHLBURGERS AT HY-VEE opens Thursday in the former MARKET GRILLE.The grocery chain's conversion swaps its in-house diner concept for the high-end burger brand that blends a chef-inspired menu with celebrity roots.

On this week's episode of the Under the Dome Podcast the State Journal-Register's Bernard Schoenburg and Doug Finke work remotely to bring you the latest updates from the Illinois Statehouse and Illinois' response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

PEORIA - Young people and out-of-state travelers have pushed Peoria County out of the blue and into the orange.

LOS ANGELES - As public health officials warned Friday that the coronavirus posed new risks to parts of the Midwest and South, enhanced federal payments that helped avert financial ruin for millions of unemployed Americans were set to expire - leaving threadbare safety nets offered by individual states to catch them.

WASHINGTON - As then-Vice President Joe Biden left the West Wing each evening to head home, he often popped his head into national security adviser Susan Rice's nearby suite of offices to check in - sometimes on pressing foreign policy matters, sometimes just to shoot the breeze.