Sources: CNN
U.S. president Donald Trump authorizes the deployment of 300 National Guard personnel to Chicago, Illinois. 2025-10-5
Four people are killed in a mass shooting targeting homeless people on a Chicago Transit Authority train in Forest Park, Illinois, United States. 2024-09-2
Illinois reports 12,623 new confirmed and probable cases in the last 24 hours, a new single-day record since the beginning of the pandemic. In addition, the number of cumulative cases surpasses 500,000. 2020-11-10
Illinois reports 6,161 new cases, the most in one day since the pandemic began. 2020-10-24
Voters in Arizona, Florida, and Illinois go to the polls in their primary elections. 2020-03-17
A violent storm system spawns at least one tornado killing two people and injuring seven others in the American state of Illinois and causing widespread damage especially in the small towns of Rochelle and Fairdale. 2015-04-9
Seven people are shot and wounded at a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, United States. 2013-03-21
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accuses the state of Illinois of securities fraud by misleading investors about the health of the state's public pension fund. 2013-03-11
A heavy blizzard in the midwestern US states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan dropping about three feet of snow results in two deaths, road closures, flight cancellations and the inflatable roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsing. 2010-12-12
United Airlines shareholders meeting in Elk Grove, Illinois in Cook County, approve a deal to merge with Continental Airlines to create the world's biggest airline. 2010-09-17