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Abortion advocates say this new law amounts to a complete ban on the procedure, as many women may not even know they are pregnant until after the fetal heartbeat is detected.

The Peoria Police Department is investigating the shooting death of a man found in the parking lot of the Hedgehill Apartments on Wednesday night.

Peoria County has been removed from the Illinois Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 risk warning list, as the Tri-County’s pandemic figures continue to improve.

The Illinois Senate passed a bill Friday which would strengthen legal protections for immigrants and require the closure of immigrant detention centers in the state.

Black women are three times more likely to die after giving birth than white women. That disparity is prompting Black women to seek Black ob-gyns, and medical schools are adding antiracist training.

The Illinois Senate passed a bill Friday creating new licenses and lotteries for marijuana dispensary licenses, addressing issues that have plagued the process set forth by a 2019 law legalizing recreational marijuana.

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Stroke patients who are struggling to regain the use of a hand will soon have access to a new FDA-cleared device that uses signals from the undamaged part of the brain to retrain the injured limb.

Illinois Democrats on Friday pushed through new legislative district maps in a whirlwind 12 hours full of partisan rancor — over the objections of Republicans and many community advocacy organizations.

With the focus shifting again to a Wuhan, China, lab, Dr. Céline Gounder, a COVID-19 adviser to the Biden transition team, says it's important to find the pandemic's origins to prevent the next one.