april 19
- Illinois matches highest single-day COVID-19 death toll
- Shots fired at house on North Grand Avenue
- Benld will be patrolled by Gillespie police department
- Tensions run high briefly over protest at Capitol
- Number of new COVID-related deaths drops to 33
- Two assisted by Innocence Project freed by governor
- Ehmen helps keep pantries, hopes stocked
- Operation Gridlock protest
- Clock ticking on fair maps amendment as priorities shift