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Subscribe This afternoon will be mostly cloudy, with a chance of flurries, and a high near 36 degrees. Tonight’s low will be around 30 degrees. Tomorrow will be the same: cloudy with a high near 35 degrees. Top story Illinois’ coronavirus case tally eclipsed 1 million today as state public health officials announced 8,757 more people have contracted COVID-19. A total of 1,008,045 infections have been diagnosed across the state since early March. That’s an average of about 3,316 new cases ...

Hawkins enlisted the help of friend and artist Amoz Wright who recruited four other artists to work on “Harvey World War”, which is being created across the street from City Hall,  on the side of Restoration Ministries.    “We all had the opportunity to conceptualize what does bringing light to the city, what does that look like to us,” says artist Amoz Wright. Starting from the left side of the mural, Wright’s portion is called, “Talk that Talk” , inspired by the first two cha...