Jake Griffin
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Man charged in Christmas Day Aurora drive-by shootingDec 28, 2020 12:00 am - The Kane County sheriff's office announced the arrest of a 26-year-old Aurora man they said is responsible for a Christmas afternoon drive-by shooting near Aurora's sout...
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How COVID-19 affected suburbs' minority communitiesDec 23, 2020 4:00 am - From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials warned that every American was vulnerable to infection and the virus would not discriminate. But that's exactl...
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As suburban hospitals start receiving vaccines, state's second shipment to be cut in halfDec 16, 2020 12:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday federal officials notified him the state's second shipment of vaccine doses expected next week will be cut in half. A reason for the sh...
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First doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Illinois. Where will they go next?Dec 14, 2020 12:00 am - The first COVID-19 vaccinations in Illinois are slated to go into the arms of hospital staff members at Peoria's St. Francis Medical Center at 11 a.m. Tuesday. Other hos...
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Kitchen fire in Lake Zurich home causes $100,000 in damageDec 14, 2020 12:00 am - Lake Zurich Fire Department officials say a cooking mishap led to an extensive fire that caused $100,000 in damage to a house on the 1300 block of Marble Hill Drive late...
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How full have suburban hospitals become?Dec 11, 2020 12:00 am - More than a third of the state's 171 short-term care and critical access hospitals have reported at least one week where 80% or more of the hospital's staffed inpatient ...
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Why it will take months before kids get the COVID-19 vaccineDec 10, 2020 4:30 am - Doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are already in short supply, but that's not the main reason it will be months before children are able to be inoculated. "The vaccines have...
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Illinois COVID-19 infection rate, hospitalizations continue to declineDec 10, 2020 12:00 am - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker remained hopeful Thursday that a decline in the seven-day average infection rate and in hospitalizations foretell a lasting trend for the sta...
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COVID-19 infection rate dips below 10% for first time since Nov. 6Dec 08, 2020 12:00 am - Illinois' COVID-19 seven-day average infection rate dipped below 10% Tuesday for the first time in more than a month as state health officials tried to allay fears about...
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COVID-19 has now killed one in every 1,000 Illinois residentsDec 03, 2020 12:00 am - One in every 1,000 Illinois residents has now died from COVID-19, according to the most recent data released by the Illinois Department of Public Health. "It is devastat...