Articles filed under Coronavirus
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Aug. 15 COVID-19 cases per county; search by ZIP codeAug 15, 2020 1:00 am - Interactive mapSuburbs' portion Since the outbreak began, there have been 98,914 cases in the suburbs as of Friday. That's 48.4% of the state's total, accord...
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'It's hard to process': Burlington Central grad Kollhoff reacts to Big Ten cancellationAug 15, 2020 1:00 am - To Zoey Kollhoff it was a double whammy. That's how the Burlington Central graduate, now a freshman women's soccer player at Illinois, felt Tuesday when the Big Ten anno...
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How the deal to turn McCormick Place into a $66M field hospital happenedAug 14, 2020 1:00 am - Taxpayers spent nearly $66 million fashioning McCormick Place into an emergency coronavirus hospital with 2,750 beds this past spring amid fears that COVID-19 patients w...
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Buffalo Grove village hall closed due to COVID-19 exposureAug 14, 2020 1:00 am - Buffalo Grove officials announced early Friday that village hall has been closed until it can be commercially cleaned and disinfected after a COVID-19 exposure occurred ...
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New COVID-19 cases push past 2,000 again; Kane, Will counties put in 'warning level'Aug 14, 2020 1:00 am - New cases of COVID-19 surged by 2,264 Friday, a 73% increase from a month ago, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported. The development mirrors last week when ...
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Wheaton District 200 reverses course, won't open middle, high schoolsAug 14, 2020 1:00 am - Just weeks before the start of the new academic year, Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 will reverse course and keep middle and high schools closed as a result of sh...
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Kane County jail on lockdown for COVID-19 casesAug 14, 2020 1:00 am - At least two detainees at the Kane County jail tested positive for COVID-19 this week, with four additional detainees showing symptoms of the virus, according to Sheriff...
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Kane County Health Dept. adds 90 full-time contact tracersAug 13, 2020 11:00 pm - On Aug. 14, Kane County Health Department Director Barbara Jeffers urges residents to continue taking steps to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the community. “We have ...
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Illinois surpasses 200,000 COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations spikeAug 13, 2020 1:00 am - Illinois passed another grim milestone as state health officials announced more than 200,000 Illinois residents have now been infected with COVID-19. Additionally, hospi...
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Teachers back in schools, students happy to talk through computers in District 211Aug 13, 2020 1:00 am - Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 may have begun the new school year in a most unusual way Thursday, but staff members say it was one for which they were well...