Jake Griffin
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Illinois COVID-19 hospitalizations at lowest level since early AugustOct 21, 2021 1:00 am - State health officials on Thursday reported 1,309 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized throughout Illinois. That's the fewest hospitalized with the respiratory disease si...
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What are the next steps toward vaccinating younger children?Oct 21, 2021 1:00 am - It's a waiting game now for parents eager to get their children between ages 5 and 11 vaccinated against COVID-19. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ...
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Illinois' COVID-19 case positivity at lowest point since mid-JulyOct 20, 2021 1:00 am - A key COVID-19 metric has dropped to its lowest level in more than three months, and hospitalizations from the respiratory illness are down more than 14% from a week ago...
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Pritzker aims for holidays to drop indoor mask mandateOct 19, 2021 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he'd like to rescind Illinois' indoor mask mandate in time for the holidays, but he stopped short of saying what metrics needed to be hit in orde...
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COVID-19 has killed 1 of every 500 Illinois residentsOct 18, 2021 1:00 am - COVID-19 has now killed one in every 500 of Illinois' 12.7 million residents. The state surpassed that grim milestone recently as deaths from the virus now stand at 25,4...
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Which crimes increased, which ones decreased in the suburbs in 2020Oct 16, 2021 1:00 am - Among 81 suburban police departments, about half reported more violent crimes including murder, rape, robbery and assault in 2020 than what they averaged annually over t...
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One person critically injured in two-vehicle Schaumburg crashOct 12, 2021 1:00 am - Three people were hurt, including one who suffered critical injuries, in a two-vehicle crash Monday afternoon in Schaumburg. Police said officers responded to the inters...
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Illinois' COVID-19 case rate is the 10th-lowest nationallyOct 11, 2021 1:00 am - Illinois has one of the lowest per capita COVID-19 infection rates in the country, though the rate remains much higher than it was four months ago. Illinois' infection ...
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Are we ready to vaccinate new wave of children?Oct 08, 2021 5:30 am - Children ages 5 to 11 might soon be eligible to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, but they won't have access to the numerous mass vaccination sites that serv...
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How the Great Chicago Fire shaped the suburbs 150 years agoOct 07, 2021 5:30 am - While the Great Chicago Fire scorched more than three square miles of the city 150 years ago Friday, its effect on the landscape was far wider. For some nearby towns lik...