Jake Griffin
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Pritzker suggests extending stay-at-home order as death toll rises by 119Apr 21, 2020 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker suggested at his daily coronavirus briefing Tuesday that Illinois' stay-at-home order will be extended through May. The governor said the number of c...
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Why March was the worst month to lose video gambling revenueApr 18, 2020 1:00 am - Susan Remein was expecting a big payout from the six video gambling machines inside Coach's Corner sports bar in Elk Grove Village last month. “When you first start out ...
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Illinois records highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases, largely as a result of more testsApr 17, 2020 1:00 am - With 1,842 new cases of coronavirus diagnosed, Illinois experienced its highest single-day increase of infections since the state began releasing test results March 10. ...
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4% of people in suburbs who tested positive for COVID-19 have diedApr 15, 2020 1:00 am - Slightly more than 4% of the residents of suburban Cook County and the five collar counties who tested positive for the coronavirus have died. Of the 11,745 people who c...
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Pritzker estimates $2.7 billion revenue shortfall from COVID-19Apr 15, 2020 1:00 am - The state will lose an estimated $2.7 billion this fiscal year and $4.6 billion next fiscal year because of the effects of the near total economic shutdown from the coro...
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COVID-19 update: 74 more dead; Pritzker touts unemployment processing changesApr 13, 2020 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the state has called back several recently retired Illinois Department of Employment Security employees to help process the more than half a...
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Researchers seek plasma from recovered COVID-19 patientsApr 13, 2020 1:00 am - University of Chicago medical researchers are starting a clinical trial to determine if blood plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients can be used to treat current patien...
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How will coronavirus affect your property taxes?Apr 11, 2020 1:00 am - Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi plans on adjusting the assessed value of every parcel in the county ahead of the August 2021 tax bills, using historical data from past ...
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Attorney general's office finds no evidence of price gougingApr 09, 2020 1:00 am - Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's office has received more than 1,120 price-gouging complaints since the start of the coronavirus outbreak. However, investigators ...
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Pritzker: Start thinking about a summer with no festivalsApr 09, 2020 1:00 am - It's time to start thinking about a summer without any festivals, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday during his daily coronavirus briefing. "I think everyone needs to thin...