Jake Griffin
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Get the kids vaccinated? Many suburban parents eager to get it done, but others hesitateMay 11, 2021 1:00 am - Julie Herrera never really had to ask her 12-year-old daughter Ella if she wanted to get a COVID-19 vaccine. "I think she knew it had been approved for kids her age befo...
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Illinois surpasses 10 million COVID-19 shots as daily vaccination tallies reboundMay 11, 2021 1:00 am - Illinois passed a COVID-19 vaccination milestone with more than 10 million doses having now gone into the arms of people throughout the state. Most inoculations have bee...
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Vaccine teams move to office buildings to make getting COVID-19 shots easierMay 10, 2021 1:00 am - Major commercial buildings, including an office building in Schaumburg, soon will have COVID-19 vaccination teams on site to offer free inoculations to workers and other...
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As vaccine counts tick back up, Illinois is on track for looser COVID-19 restrictions this weekMay 10, 2021 1:00 am - COVID-19 vaccine providers throughout Illinois are again averaging more than 80,000 shots a day after spending all of last week below that threshold. Illinois Department...
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Voting rights demonstrations honor late legislator John LewisMay 08, 2021 1:00 am - As Regina Brent affixed a sign to her car with a picture of the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, she recalled other voting rights demonstrations she ha...
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COVID-19 update: 107,688 more shots, 22 more dead, 1,729 new casesMay 08, 2021 1:00 am - State health officials Saturday reported 107,688 more COVID-19 vaccines had been administered statewide. That brings the total number of doses administered to 9,827,646 ...
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Pritzker expects state to fully reopen by June 11, with 'bridge' phase starting May 14May 06, 2021 1:00 am - Illinois' businesses and other operations could fully reopen by June 11, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday. Pritzker also said the state is on schedule to move to a ...
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85% of Illinoisans 65 and older have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine doseMay 06, 2021 1:00 am - Eighty-five percent of Illinoisans 65 and older have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, state health officials report. That's one metric used to determine...
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Kitchen fire guts Oakbrook Terrace apartment unitMay 05, 2021 1:00 am - A kitchen fire in one of more than 50 units of an Oakbrook Terrace apartment complex gutted the unit and left two other units uninhabitable, fire officials said. No one ...
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From target shooting to museum passes: State plans to offer 'free stuff' for vaccinationsMay 04, 2021 1:00 am - Illinois officials are offering “incentives” to residents to get immunized against the coronavirus — starting at a downstate shooting facility where those who get COVID-...