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CHICAGO – A second person has been diagnosed with the coronavirus in Chicago, health officials said Thursday, and it is the first U.S. case of the virus spreading person-to-person.

The second patient is the husband of a woman who caught the disease after traveling to Wuhan, China.

The latest case is the sixth in the U.S. The other five U.S. cases were travelers who developed the respiratory illness after returning to the U.S. from China. The latest patient had not been to China.

The artwork of McHenry County College students will be on display as part of the Voices & Skyway Select exhibit beginning on Thursday in Woodstock.

The exhibition will be at the Satellite Gallery at the Old Courthouse Art Center, located at 101 N.

Crystal Lake School District 155 has not communicated with the hackers or paid any ransom after its computers were infected with ransomware Friday, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

District spokeswoman Shannon Podzimek said in an email Wednesday that the district’s restoration efforts have been performed from secure backup systems that it maintains.

Superintendent Steve Olson wrote in an email to parents Monday, which was shared by a parent with the Northwest Herald, that the district’s network monitoring systems det

The Fox River Grove Public Library District recently received a grant from the Reaching Across Illinois Libraries System, which will help it create two videos that they say will bring more visibility to the library.

The library district has one of four projects that were selected to receive the “My Library Is...” grants through Reaching Across Illinois Library System, known as RAILS.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a striking shift from President Donald Trump’s claim of “perfect” dealings with Ukraine, his defense asserted at his Senate trial that a trade of U.S. military aid for political favors — even if proven — could not be grounds for his impeachment.

Trump's defenders relied on retired professor Alan Dershowitz, a member of their team, who told senators that every politician conflates his own interest with the public interest.

JERUSALEM – Israel has postponed a move to annex large parts of the West Bank, a government minister said Wednesday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to quickly act on the Trump administration’s Mideast plan despite fierce Palestinian opposition.

Netanyahu had said the Cabinet would vote Sunday on extending Israeli sovereignty to dozens of Jewish settlements as well as the Jordan Valley, a move that risks provoking a harsh backlash from the Palestinians and the international community.

But he appea

PRINCE SULTAN AIR BASE, Saudi Arabia – Across the vast expanse of this desert air base, hundreds of tents have popped up and a newly arrived squadron of U.S. Air Force F-15E fighters is lined up on the tarmac, flying daily missions over Iraq and Syria. Off in the distance, two American Patriot missile batteries are scanning the skies, prepared to knock down any Iranian attack against the Saudi kingdom.

The U.S. troop presence here has grown to roughly 2,500 since last summer, when the U.S.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law a major rewrite of the rules of trade with Canada and Mexico, celebrating the fulfillment of one of his top campaign promises while declining to share the moment with Democratic lawmakers whose support was essential to getting it over the finish line.

Trump said renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement was “probably the No.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – With five days until the Iowa caucuses, Joe Biden is fending off a new onslaught of GOP attacks over his son’s business overseas and facing piling pressure to show Democratic voters he can handle the incoming.

As Republicans amplified their allegations against the former vice president, accusing him of nepotism and worse in a series of charges stemming from the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, the Biden campaign promised an aggressive and direct counterstrategy ahead of Monday’s first nominating contest.

WASHINGTON – In a striking shift from President Donald Trump’s claims of “perfect” dealings with Ukraine, his defenders asserted Wednesday at his Senate trial that a trade of U.S. military aid for political favors – even if proven – could not be grounds for his impeachment.

Trump’s defense spotlighted retired professor Alan Dershowitz, a member of its team who said that every politician conflates his own interest with the public interest.