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Thursday, April 9, 2020

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In this April 7, 2020, photo, a lone man waits for a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line train on Chicago’s Southside.

CDC officials trace beginnings of Chicago outbreak to two family gatherings -- a funeral and a birthday party

In February, family members gathered for a funeral in the Chicago area. A close family friend who had recently been out of state attended and was just a bit sick with mild respiratory symptoms. Before long, 16 people between the ages of five and 86, were infected (seven confirmed and nine probable), and three were dead.
FILE — In this March 16, 2020 file photo, chairs hang stacked on empty tables at a closed restaurant in New York.

Hurry up and wait? Why relief to small businesses has lagged

Many Main Street businesses are still waiting for the cash infusion necessary to stay alive. Others say they haven't even been able to apply for loans under what's called the Paycheck Protection Program. Here are some questions and answers about the snags the program faces, and what options owners have.
FILE- In this March 17, 2020 file photo Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing with the coronavirus task force, at the White House in Washington. Trump has been telling voters that the U.S. economy will leap back to life “like a rocket,” stronger than ever after its bout with the coronavirus. But there is a reason economics is called the “dismal science.” There are emerging signs that any recovery will fail to match the speed and severity of the economic collapse that occurred in just a few weeks. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Watch Trump and team's daily briefing on coronavirus, economy

Watch President Donald Trump and his team's daily coronavirus press briefing. He has been telling voters that the U.S. economy will leap back to life "like a rocket" after its bout with the coronavirus. But there are emerging signs that any recovery will fail to match the speed and severity of the economic collapse.
Video attached to article Stripped trees lighted by search lights and wrecked cars, some with dome lights on, create an otherworldly landscape after an F-4 tornado damaged every house and killed two people in Fairdale, an unincorporated community in DeKalb County southeast of Rockford on Route 72, on April 9, 2015.

Fairdale 5 years later: Residents share how town has rebuilt after devastating tornado in 2015

Clem Schultz said his wife, Geraldine Schultz, is still with him every day, even though she lost her life in the tornado that devastated the unincorporated town of Fairdale in north DeKalb County five years ago.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, speaks with a reporter outside the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 9, 2020. Senate Democrats on Thursday stalled President Donald Trump’s request for $250 billion to supplement a “paycheck protection” program for businesses crippled by the coronavirus outbreak, demanding protections for minority-owned businesses and money for health care providers and state and local governments.
Democrats stall Trump's $250B business virus aid package
Senate Democrats on Thursday stalled President Donald Trump's request for $250 billion to supplement a "paycheck protection" program for businesses crippled by the coronavirus outbreak, demanding protections for minority-owned businesses and money for health care providers and state and local governments.
In this photo taken on April 1, 2020, 103-year-old Ada Zanusso, poses with a nurse at the old people's home "Maria Grazia" in Lessona, northern Italy, after recovering from Covid-19 infection. To recover from coronavirus infection, as she did, Zanusso recommends courage and faith, the same qualities that have served her well in her nearly 104 years on Earth. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Residenza Maria Grazia Lessona via AP Photo)
103-year-old Italian says 'courage, faith' helped beat virus
A 103-year-old Italian woman says courage and faith have helped her recover from the coronavirus
This undated photo provided by Georgia-Pacific shows the production line at the Georgia-Pacific plant in Atlanta. NCSolutions, a data and consulting firm, said online and in-store U.S. toilet paper sales rose 51% between Feb. 24, 2020 and March 10, as buyers started getting uneasy about the growing number of coronavirus cases.
Wiped out of toilet paper? Here's why
What does toilet paper have to do with a global pandemic? Nothing. Here's a look at why it's been so hard to find.
A sign is displayed at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Saturday, March 28, 2020.
How Rush University Medical Center was designed for a pandemic
The butterfly-shaped building, known as "The Tower," opened in January 2012. Built in the shadow of 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, the facility was designed to be able to quickly handle waves of patients, expand its bed capacity to 133 percent and control airflow to prevent cross-contamination.
FILE - In this April 21, 1970 file photo, Apollo 13 commander James A. Lovell Jr., left, opens the astronauts televised news conference at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, by saying "I'm not a superstitious man" alluding to the number 13 and the trouble that befell the flight. With Lovell are his fellow crew members, command module pilot John Swigert, center, and lunar module pilot Fred Haise. With their moon-bound spacecraft wrecked by an oxygen tank explosion on April 13, 1970, the astronauts urgently radioed, "Houston, we've had a problem here." Screenwriters for the 1995 film "Apollo 13'³ wanted to punch that up. Thus was born "Houston, we have a problem." (AP Photo)
Apollo 13's most famous quotes originated in Hollywood
Apollo 13's best known quotes originated not in space or Mission Control, but in Hollywood
This April 3, 2020 photo shows Erin Bried, right, with her daughters Ellie, 9, left, and Bea, 4, as they sew masks. Bried is the author of "How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew," left, and "How to Build a Fire: And Other Handy Things Your Grandfather Knew," (Holly Bemiss via AP)
On our own: Forgotten household skills, revived for new use
The coronavirus has shuttered many small businesses that do our work and supply our things
Deputy head of the intensive care unit Flavio Tangian talks with a Coronavirus patient under treatment in the intensive care unit ICU at 'Ospedale di Circolo' hospital, in Varese, Italy, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
As outbreaks flatten in places, Japan, India see more cases
Coronavirus infections are spiking in Japan and creating hot spots in India's congested cities just as the U.S. and some European countries are considering when to start easing restrictions that helped curb their outbreaks
A woman and her daughter wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, sell fruit and vegetables at the taxi station in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. South Africa and more than half of Africa’s 54 countries have imposed lockdowns, curfews, travel bans or other restrictions to try to contain the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 coronavirus.
Half-billion more people face poverty due to virus
Around half a billion people could be pushed into poverty as a result of the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic unless richer countries take "urgent action" to help developing nations, a leading aid organization warned Thursday.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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The pink supermoon rises over St. Louis on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. April’s supermoon is the brightest and largest it will be for all of 2020.
The supermoon, as seen from around the world
The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 5,395, Bob Strawn photo: Santa Claus invaded the feminine precincts of Duchess Beauty Salon in Rolling Meadows to get a glamour treatment before his official arrival at Randhurst Shopping Center. As Santa sat under the dryer, regular customers appeared to be speculating whether it would be worth while to tell him what they would like for Christmas in December of 1966.
Through the Film Magnifier: Santa at a salon, Ben Gazzara, Adam West, canoe racing and more
In a sign of the times, someone draped a mask on the “Mr. Eggwards” sculpture at Mt. St. Mary Park in St. Charles. The mask has been there since at least Thursday. The bronze sculpture, by Kimber Fiebiger, was dedicated in 2013 and is part of the permanent collection that highlights the annual St. Charles Sculpture in the Park event.
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“In the midst of changing our lives, we began to miss our weekly grind of two soccer practices and one or two soccer games on the weekends for our twin 9-year-old daughters,” says the Nero family of Hoffman Estates. “Early on, my mind went to the vintage 1980s Wilson soccer ball from my childhood, which my parents brought to me in the last year. Of course, it's not the cool new balls that the kids use nowadays, but the movie “Cast Away” and Tom Hanks brought this idea to mind. I call it 'Soccer Sunday coffee with Wilson.'”
Daily Herald readers create their own Wilson
Joy Symonds says her family from left Emily, 4, Daniel, and Vivienne, 2, have enjoyed walks through their neighborhood and even tried out the “balance beams” along the space mural at Elgin Lock and Key.
Daily Herald reader-submitted stay-at-home photos
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 50,275, Charles Cherney photo: DePaul basketball coach Ray Meyer is mobbed by fans after his team returned from Provo, Utah, where the Blue Demons upset UCLA to win the NCAA West Regional Championship. About 4,000 fans turned out at O’hare Airport to welcome the team home in March of 1979.
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