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

A new study shows the number of people dying from cancer is on the decline, but more women and younger adults are being diagnosed with it. The annual report from the American Cancer Society, published Thursday in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians,

For decades, many television shows and movies have glamorized bank heists, but they’re far from the glamour portrayed. Often, tellers and customers are left behind, traumatized in the wake of the crimes.

Total funding for Chicago startups was $2.5 billion last year, up 3% from 2023, research firm PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association say. But the number of deals was down 11% to 317 and well off the recent peak of 481 investments in 2021.

Ezike, a regular face on Illinois TV screens in the worst days of the pandemic, acknowledged she violated the state's "revolving door" ethics law when she took the job as CEO of Sinai Chicago in 2022,

The apartment building in Lakeview sold to Randolph Street Realty Capital, in a submarket with limited multifamily development.

Former Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike, who led the agency during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, has been fined $150,000 for violating an anti-corruption law.

Dr. Ngozi Ezike, a face of the state’s pandemic response, took a job with a hospital that received state grants.

The city’s cultural arts department increased grants to artists during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with an arts economy in flux, close observers are wondering what the future holds.

Dr. Ngozi Ezike, who led the IDPH response to the COVID-19 pandemic, was fined $150,000 for an ethics violation.

The only year the brokerage has tracked with a bigger drop-off was 2020 at nearly 2.2 million square feet. For comparison, downtown saw about 1.3 million square feet of negative net absorption — the change in the amount of leased and occupied space compared with the prior period — in 2009 and 2010 combined amid the Great Recession.

An insurance company must face a claim that it improperly denied coverage to the operators of Vi Senior Living for alleged losses incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, a state appellate panel ruled.