Jake Griffin
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COVID-19 hospitalizations up 16.8% from a week agoNov 16, 2021 12:00 am - State health officials Tuesday reported 1,627 COVID-19 patients were being treated in hospitals throughout Illinois. Of those hospitalized, 325 were in intensive care, a...
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Lombard apartment fire causes $100,000 damageNov 16, 2021 12:00 am - Lombard Fire Department officials said no one was injured in a Monday evening apartment fire that caused more than $100,000 damage. Firefighters were called to the apart...
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DuPage County lags suburbs, Lake County leads in vaccinating kids 5 to 11Nov 15, 2021 12:00 am - Despite having the highest rate of fully vaccinated residents among the 102 counties in Illinois, DuPage County is lagging in getting needles into the arms of its younge...
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Suburban store owners face fraud charges in welfare schemeNov 12, 2021 12:00 am - Nine people are facing federal fraud charges stemming from an investigation targeting convenience stores where operators and workers are accused of cashing federally bac...
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Snow on the way? Winter weather expected throughout weekendNov 11, 2021 12:00 am - The season's first snowfall is expected in most parts of the suburbs this weekend, with a wintry mix starting Friday afternoon and lasting through Sunday. Meteorolog...
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Round Lake apartment fire displaces 10 familiesNov 10, 2021 12:00 am - An apartment fire Tuesday afternoon in Round Lake caused no injuries, but displaced 10 families, Greater Round Lake Fire Protection District officials said. Firefighters...
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Fire in Wood Dale leaves home uninhabitableNov 10, 2021 12:00 am - Four people escaped a house fire in Wood Dale late Tuesday afternoon without injury, but the blaze left the home uninhabitable, fire officials said. Wood Dale Fire Prote...
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Experts: Crowd safety techniques should have prevented stampede that killed 2 Naperville menNov 08, 2021 12:00 am - A deadly crowd surge at a massive outdoor music festival in Houston Friday killed eight people, including two men from Naperville, and injured scores more. But things li...
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District 15 closing elementary school for 2 weeks after COVID-19 outbreakNov 05, 2021 1:00 am - Palatine Elementary District 15 officials are closing Willow Bend Elementary School for two weeks following an outbreak of COVID-19 cases. A district spokeswoman said th...
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State sees 2nd-highest number of test results in a single day, and only 1.7% were positiveNov 05, 2021 1:00 am - Illinois recorded the second-highest number of COVID-19 test results in a single-day Friday, and just 1.7% of them resulted in new cases of the respiratory disease. Illi...