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THU, 2/27/2020

Thursday, February 27, 2020

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Residents of Jongno-Gu wearing face masks spray disinfectant Thursday as a precaution against the coronavirus at the Jogyesa Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea and China each reported hundreds more virus cases Thursday as the new illness persists in the worst-hit areas and spreads beyond borders.

Countries take harsh steps as they struggle to contain virus

Saudi Arabia cut travel to Islam's holiest sites, South Korea toughened penalties for those breaking quarantines and airports across Latin America looked for signs of sick passengers Thursday as the new virus troubled a mushrooming swath of the globe.
President Donald Trump with Vice President Mike Pence, left, and members of the president’s coronavirus task force speaks Wednesday during a news conference at the Brady press briefing room of the White House.

New U.S. coronavirus case may be 1st from unknown origin

State and federal health officials are trying to locate everyone who came in contact with a northern California woman believed to be the first in the U.S. to contract the coronavirus with no known connection to travel abroad or other known causes.
FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo, a subject's waist is measured during an obesity prevention study in Chicago. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, the U.S. obesity rate continues to rise, with an especially large jump in the ranks of people who are severely obese. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

About 40% of US adults are obese, government survey finds

A new government survey finds that about 40% of American adults are obese
Saudi Health Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah, talks to a health official about the latest situation on coronavirus at the Saudi Food and Drug Authority in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Saudi Arabia halted travel to the holiest sites in Islam over fears of the global outbreak of the new coronavirus just months ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage. Photos show Saudi King Salman, right, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, and Saudi Arabia's founder late King Abdul Aziz Al Saud. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Amid virus, Saudis close Islam's holiest sites to foreigners

Saudi Arabia has closed off the holiest sites in Islam to foreign pilgrims due to the coronavirus
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Feder: Lee Phillip Bell, 'First Lady of Chicago TV,' recalled as 'gracious and kind'
Lee Phillip Bell, the Chicago talk show pioneer who co-created two long-running CBS soap operas, is being remembered as the "First Lady of Chicago Television."
Medics flash the victory sign in a ward dedicated for people infected with the coronavirus, at Forqani Hospital in Qom, 78 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Iran's president said Wednesday, that Tehran has no immediate plans to quarantine cities over the new coronavirus rapidly spreading across the country, even as the Islamic Republic suffers the highest death toll outside of China with 19 killed amid 139 cases confirmed on Wednesday. (Mohammad Mohsenzadeh/Mizan News Agency via AP)
Virus response in Mideast tainted by political views of Iran
As the coronavirus spreads across the Middle East, so is the scrutiny and criticism of Iran
FILE - In this Aug. 9, 1944 file photo, U.S. soldiers walk by a bombed out cemetery in Agana, Guam. The 1941 Japanese invasion of Guam, which happened on the same December day as the attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor, set off years of forced labor, internment, torture, rape and beheadings. Now, more than 75 years later, thousands of people on Guam, a U.S. territory, are expecting to get long-awaited compensation for their suffering at the hands of imperial Japan during World War II. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal, File)
Islanders who suffered 1940s war atrocities on Guam get paid
The 1941 Japanese invasion of Guam set off nearly three years of internment, torture and rape
Local residents gather at a roadblock in Karava, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Greece's government hoped to defuse tensions after protests over plans for new migrant camps on two of its islands Wednesday turned into violent clashes between police and local residents, some armed with Molotov cocktails and shotguns.(AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
Greek island residents protest for 4th day over migrant plan
Demonstrators gathered for a fourth consecutive day on the eastern Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to protest government plans to build new migrant detention centers
FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020 file photo Pope Francis wipes his nose during the Ash Wednesday Mass opening Lent, the forty-day period of abstinence and deprivation for Christians before Holy Week and Easter, inside the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome. Pope Francis is sick and skipped a planned Mass with Rome clergy across town on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, officials said. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope cancels visit with Rome priests for 'slight' illness
Officials say Pope Francis is sick and he skipped a planned Mass with Rome clergy across town on Thursday
Israel denounces anti-Semitic routine at Spanish Carnival
Israel's ambassador to Spain has denounced a Carnival parade routine in a small town that featured men and women dressed up like Jewish Holocaust victims and Nazi soldiers
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during a visit to the Connection, a homelessness centre, at St Martins in the Fields, London, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (Tim Clarke/Pool Photo via AP)
Britain opens EU trade talks with a threat to walk away
Britain has laid out its opening demands for trade talks with the European Union, delivering a blunt threat to walk away from the table if there is no progress within four months
Outspoken Hong Kong publisher held over pro-democracy march
Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper says the outspoken head of its publishing group, Jimmy Lai, has been held by police over his participation in a protest march in August that was part of the territory's months-long pro-democracy movement
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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The Grayslake Library Foundation’s 9th Annual Mini Golf Fundraiser was held Saturday Feb. 22 and Sunday, Feb. 23 at the Grayslake Area Public Library in Grayslake. Local businesses and organizations sponsored and built unique mini golf holes set up in the library including the Alice in Wonderland themed hole sponsored by the Literary Ladies of the Lakes
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The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 3,106, Tom Grieger photo: About 15 members of Local 811 of the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers picketed the north side Arlington Heights offices of Illinois Bell Telephone Company on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 1966. It marked the first day of the strike, which was called after union members refused to ratify an agreement between union officials and management.
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Bud School, 72, of Elgin, took his grandkids sledding with a trio of sleds that are probably between 75-80 years old and “were around when I was a kid, and I know my dad used one of them,” he said.
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Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich waves to his friends after he gave a press conference at his Chicago home, one day after getting out of prison after having his sentence commuted by President Trump.
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A pedestrian crosses Highland Avenue in downtown Elgin as snow continues to fall Thursday morning.
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Billy Harrigan Tighe, who plays lead character Brantley and Sydney Morton, who plays Christy, rehearse a scene during the final dress rehearsal for Paramount Theatre’s “The Secret of My Success” at Paramount Theatre in Aurora. The musical is an adaptation of the 1987 film that starred Michael J. Fox and Helen Slater in the lead roles.
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