The federal government authorized a financial aid program for small businesses that have closed their doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but state and local government also offer assistance.

Business sectors directly affected by the coronavirus and mitigation employ 1.5 million Illinoisans. The longer the shutdown, the more industries and jobs face cuts.

A quarter of Illinois’ workers are staring down the economic impacts of a global pandemic.

Our team wanted to give you a look at the harsh reality of life in downtown Chicago during the COVID-19 crisis.

The last thing Illinois needs is more bad news for the sake of it. But ignoring this reality threatens to make this crisis worse.

New data show Illinois lost private sector jobs amid a national economic expansion for the first year on record in 2019, a sign of the state’s deep structural problems in the run-up to the current market downturn.