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Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Aug 14, 2026 10:41 am - Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Lurie Children’s Hospital opens its first specialty pharmacy in Schaumburg

Daily Herald report
Aug 14, 2026 10:03 am - Chicago-based Lurie Children’s and Clearway Health, based in Boston, opened the hospital’s first outpatient specialty pharmacy Thursday in Schaumburg.
Doctors say Trump’s vaccine order will raise fears, cause confusion and endanger kids

By LAURA UNGAR
Aug 12, 2026 7:23 am - Doctors say President Donald Trump’s new executive order on vaccines is misguided and likely to stoke fear and confusion among parents at a time when measles is raging, immunization rates are falling and children are heading back to school.
Trump’s vaccine order hands some MAHA voters a win. It also gives Democrats an attack line

By ALI SWENSON
Aug 12, 2026 7:18 am - President Donald Trump pivoted the nation’s attention back to vaccines this week with an executive order that aims to scale back the childhood immunization schedule and space out shots into separate visits.
Ascension Illinois hosting blood drives in Elk Grove, Hoffman Estates

Submitted by Ascension Illinois
Aug 11, 2026 10:15 am - Versiti Blood Centers of Illinois will host blood drives at Ascension Alexian Brother in Elk Grove Village and Ascension Saint Alexius in Hoffman Estates this week and again in September amid an ongoing shortage.
Pritzker signs bills allowing rideshare unionization, oversight of prescription drug program

By Peter Hancock, Brenden Moore and Jerry Nowicki
Aug 10, 2026 4:23 pm - Rideshare drivers can unionize in Illinois, a new law seeks to regulate and classify plastic pellets as a pollutant, and the state will exercise greater oversight of a federal prescription drug discount program.
Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups' guidance

By ALI SWENSON
Aug 10, 2026 1:54 pm - President Donald Trump on Monday will sign an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits, according to a White House fact sheet.
Disability advocates march on Gov. JB Pritzker’s office demanding more alternatives to nursing homes

By EVGENIA ANASTASAKOS
Aug 06, 2026 3:43 pm - Advocates urged the state to invest in community-based alternatives to nursing homes for people with disabilities before attempting to enter Gov. JB Pritzker’s Chicago office in the West Loop on Wednesday.
Senate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer COVID questions

By ERIC TUCKER
Aug 06, 2026 10:57 am - A Senate committee on Thursday voted along party lines to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, setting up a referral to the Department of Justice for potential investigation over whether the country's longtime top infectious disease official properly exercised his constitutional rights.
New kind of flu shot is on the way as the FDA approves Moderna's mRNA-based vaccine

By LAURAN NEERGAARD
Aug 06, 2026 7:52 am - The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new kind of flu vaccine for older people, the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturer Moderna said.

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