Illinois
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Chicago opens warming centers as bitterly cold air arrives
Feb 06, 2021 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The city of Chicago has opened warming shelters amid a wave of bitterly cold air that forecasters say will linger across the region for several days. City...
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Former Illinois Gaming Board chair picked to lead Illinois GOP
Feb 06, 2021 12:00 am - Members of the Illinois Republican Party on Saturday picked a former gaming board chief to be the next head of the state party. Don Tracy, a Springfield attorney who was...
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COVID-19 cases per county, ZIP code as of Feb. 5Feb 06, 2021 12:00 am - Interactive mapFind an interactive map where you can search counts by ZIP code at dailyherald.com. Suburbs' portion There have been 485,931 COVID-19 cases...
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More contagious U.K. COVID-19 variant found in Lake CountyFeb 06, 2021 12:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated because the 63,080 vaccine doses administered on Friday is not a one-day record, as the IDPH reported Saturday; the IDPH o...
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Police: Suspect in killing of woman, daughters fled on a bus
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Environmental complaint leads to federal discrimination probeFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched an investigation into the Illinois EPA over whether the planned relocation of an industrial scrap shr...
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Transgender inmates' class-action suit can proceedFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A federal district court in southern Illinois denied a request Thursday from the Illinois Department of Corrections to dismiss a class-action lawsuit again...
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COVID-19 milestone: Vaccines given outnumber cases of the diseaseFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - Illinois has hit a one-day record of giving 74,965 COVID-19 shots, and it passed another milestone Friday: More people have had an immunization than have had the disease...
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COVID-19 cases stable, vaccinations slowly increase
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Sitting on billions, Catholic dioceses amassed taxpayer aid