Jake Griffin
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February marijuana sales net state $8 million in taxesApr 03, 2020 1:00 am - The second month of legal recreational marijuana sales in Illinois generated $5.2 million in marijuana tax revenue. February, which had 29 days this year, also added $3 ...
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16 more dead, 715 new Illinois COVID-19 cases as McCormick Place 'hospital' prepares to openApr 02, 2020 1:00 am - A massive makeshift hospital at McCormick Place in Chicago is expected to be ready to handle its first batch of coronavirus patients as early as Friday, Gov. J.B. Pritzk...
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Recreational marijuana buyers spent $35.9 million in MarchApr 02, 2020 1:00 am - Buyers spent $35.9 million in March to purchase recreational marijuana in Illinois. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation announced sales figu...
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Restaurants are hurting, and so are suburbs' sales tax haulsMar 30, 2020 5:30 am - Juan Gonzalez is still making tortas, tacos and fajitas at his Mago Grill & Cantina in South Barrington, just not nearly as many. "It's not much at all. We sell maybe 5%...
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Restaurants are hurting, and so are suburbs' sales tax haulsMar 30, 2020 5:30 am - Juan Gonzalez is still making tortas, tacos and fajitas at his Mago Grill & Cantina in South Barrington, just not nearly as many. “It's not much at all. We sell maybe 5%...
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State announces 8 new deaths, 461 new coronavirus casesMar 30, 2020 1:00 am - An inmate at the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill was one of the eight new coronavirus victims, Illinois Department of Public Health officials announced Mond...
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7 new deaths in Illinois, 673 more infected with coronavirusMar 26, 2020 1:00 am - Illinois experienced its largest single-day death toll from the coronavirus outbreak Thursday as state health officials reported seven more people have died. The virus h...
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4 more COVID-19 deaths, 250 new cases in IllinoisMar 24, 2020 1:00 am - Four more people have died from coronavirus in Illinois, bringing the total death toll in the state to 16 since the outbreak began. An additional 250 people have contrac...
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Suburban hospitals add rooms, beds for COVID-19 patients - will they be enough?Mar 23, 2020 5:30 am - As Illinois officials continue to increase measures intended to slow the coronavirus infection rate throughout the state, one of the chief concerns remains the potential...
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Three new deaths, cases jump to 422, Pritzker saysMar 19, 2020 1:00 am - Three more people have died in Illinois from coronavirus infections, according to Gov. J.B. Pritzker. A Will County man in his 50s, a Cook County woman in her 80s and a ...