Vaccinations for flu and COVID-19 in Chicago are down from last year, according to a report by local health officials.

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,

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.

PHILADELPHIA — As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023. In many parts of the country, though, those decreases don’t match the public perception.

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.

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.

The average driver lost $771 in time and productivity due to traffic jams in 2024, a transportation analyst at INRIX told Newsweek. INRIX, a global transportation data and analytics leader, released its 2024 global traffic scorecard, identifying and ranking congestion trends in nearly 1,000 cities across 37 countries.

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.

Jan. 20, 2025, marks five years since the CDC reported the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 on American soil.

USF public health professor Donna Petersen says collaboration was critical in helping community leaders respond to the pandemic. In hindsight, she says interventions like shutdowns were in place too long.

asked the federal government to revoke its authorization of all COVID-19 vaccines in May 2021, just as vaccinated Americans began returning to a sense of normalcy after pandemic lockdowns.

As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023