Target, Walmart, and Best Buy will be closed, while Whole Foods and some Starbucks locations will remain open.
Walmart, America's largest private-sector employer, is pausing job offers to foreign candidates needing H-1B visas to work in the United States.
A Rockford woman won half-a-million dollars off holiday-themed scratch-off ticket, the Illinois Lottery said.
A man has been charged in the shooting of two people at an Evergreen Park Walmart on Wednesday night, police said.
Two people were injured in a shooting at a Walmart store Wednesday afternoon in the south suburbs, investigators said. There was fear of an active shooter among those who were inside the crowded store.