Marni Pyke
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As FDA ponders booster shots, Illinois shows a huge gap in vaccination ratesSep 16, 2021 1:00 am - As U.S. Food and Drug Administration experts debate offering a third Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine shot to bolster immunity against COVID-19, Illinois presents a steep contras...
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Cases of COVID-19 are rising in children, but there's reason for optimism, expert saysSep 15, 2021 1:00 am - Cases of COVID-19 in children and teenagers rose by nearly 8% in just over two weeks, a rate that surpassed increases in the general population, Illinois Department of P...
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Metra directors approve 21% raise for top executive, but it's not unanimousSep 15, 2021 1:00 am - Metra board members approved a salary increase of about 21% including retirement benefits for the agency's chief Wednesday, but the vote wasn't unanimous. Executive Dire...
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You'll need an appointment — but can skip the lines — at many driver services facilitiesSep 13, 2021 5:30 am - Questions such as “do you have an appointment?”, and the occasional letdown, “all our appointments are full,” circulated Friday outside the driver services facility in L...
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COVID-19 deaths spike to 71, rise in September as Pritzker holds to mask mandateSep 13, 2021 1:00 am - Deaths from COVID-19 hit 71 Saturday, the most since Feb. 18, reflecting an increase of fatalities from the virus in September. State data Monday shows people dying of C...
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'More frustrating than anything else': McConchie describes his breakthrough COVID-19 caseSep 13, 2021 1:00 am - For an unusual week and a half this August, one of Illinois' most influential Republicans set up shop from a card table in his garage. The quirky setting for Senate Repu...
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Her 26-year-old fiance died from COVID-19. Now, she's telling people to get vaccinated.Sep 09, 2021 5:30 am - For five days, Solomon Deloach waged a desperate battle against COVID-19 to stay alive and come home to his family. On Aug. 2, breathing with difficulty and in an ICU be...
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10 years, $6 billion later, controversial O'Hare Modernization Program is wrapping upSep 09, 2021 1:00 am - Aircraft won't be able to land on Runway 9-Right/27-Left until December, but Chicago leaders on Thursday called the extension of 9R/27L and the contentious, game-changin...
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Risk of COVID-19 transmissions in Cook, McHenry counties inches downSep 08, 2021 1:00 am - The risk of transmitting COVID-19 has dipped a notch in Cook and McHenry counties, Illinois Department of Public Health data showed Wednesday. Both counties dropped from...
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How U of I fought the clock to develop a COVID-19 test that schools will use this fallSep 07, 2021 5:00 am - In the spring of 2020 with no COVID-19 vaccines, an unchecked killer virus and shutdown fears, a team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created a solutio...