Articles filed under Coronavirus
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As of Aug. 25, COVID-19 case counts per county, per ZIP codeAug 25, 2020 1:00 am - Interactive mapSuburbs' portion Since the outbreak began, there have been 106,636 cases in the suburbs as of Tuesday. That's 47.7% of the state's total, acco...
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District 15 "tech tents" help bilingual families with e-learningAug 25, 2020 1:00 am - Figuring out how to make virtual learning work smoothly can pose challenges for students and families, particularly those who are not comfortable speaking English. To he...
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Aurora launches $500,000 rental assistance programAug 24, 2020 11:00 pm - The City of Aurora recently launched a $500,000 emergency rental assistance program to support Aurora residents who have overdue rent payments because of financial strai...
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Wearing a neck gaiter may be worse than no mask at all, researchers findAug 24, 2020 7:00 am - As the number of novel coronavirus cases continues to rise nationwide, the recurring message from many public health experts and doctors has been simple: Wearing masks s...
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Will special-needs students fall through the cracks as school resumes?Aug 24, 2020 5:00 am - As schools begin to navigate a return to remote — and in some cases hybrid or in-person — learning, some parents of special-needs students fear their children might fall...
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Student in District 10 tests positiveAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - In a letter to families, Itasca Elementary District 10 Superintendent Craig Benes said the student did not attend classes Monday. Benes attached guidance from the DuPage...
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Brief Zoom glitches didn't mar start of classes, school leaders sayAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Global partial outages of Zoom videoconferencing services caused some consternation Monday for educators and students in a few suburban districts that began the school y...
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Lake Zurich extends outdoor dining approvalAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Lake Zurich Mayor Thomas Poynton has extended the village's approval for restaurants to offer expanded outdoor dining into 2021, or whenever the village's local emergenc...
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Kane County libraries make late plea for COVID-19 relief fundsAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated to change the date to apply for funding to Sept. 15 and deleted a sentence about when the county board would vote on the f...
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Elgin COVID Response Fund to grant second round of fundingAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - A COVID-19 response fund created to help Elgin nonprofit groups will launch a second round of grant funding and has expanded the services it's looking to support. The E...