Articles filed under Coronavirus
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In school or at home? Both sides of pandemic education debate have rallied in the suburbsSep 13, 2020 1:00 am - The issue of returning to school during the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked vigorous debate in the suburbs, as people on both sides have donned masks, painted signs and ta...
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State reports 1,462 more COVID-19 cases Sunday, 14 deathsSep 13, 2020 1:00 am - State health officials on Sunday announced an additional 1,462 new cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, along with 14 more deaths from the virus. The new cases brings Illinois...
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State reports 2,121 new cases of COVID-19, 22 more deathsSep 12, 2020 2:00 pm - The Illinois Department of Public Health Saturday announced 2,121 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 22 additional confirmed deaths. Of the deaths, 15 were in Cook Coun...
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Pediatrician: 'Trick-or-treating is just not feasible this year'Sep 12, 2020 7:30 am - Halloween candy has been on sale for weeks, but parents are wondering whether trick-or-treating will be the latest holiday tradition trashed by the COVID-19 pandemic. So...
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Robot cleaners are coming, this time to wipe up your coronavirus germsSep 12, 2020 6:18 am - SAN FRANCISCO - Every day at Sharp Grossmont Hospital, custodial teams wheel two boxy robots down the halls from one patient room to the next, using ultraviolet light to...
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Wildlife populations plummeted 68% since 1970, monitoring showsSep 12, 2020 1:00 am - Humanity's expansion, consumption and transformation of land and sea have caused wildlife populations to plunge over five decades, signaling a “broken” relationship with...
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Vernon Township to roll back executive salaries and freeze staff raisesSep 12, 2020 1:00 am - The Vernon Township Board announced Saturday that it will roll back executive salaries to 2017 levels and freeze all staff pay increases due to the COVID-19 crisis. The ...
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Underwood bashes federal response to COVID-19; Oberweis review mixedSep 12, 2020 1:00 am - Democratic U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood of Naperville bashed the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as an "extraordinary failure," especially criticizi...
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As of Sept. 11, COVID-19 case counts per county, per ZIP codeSep 12, 2020 1:00 am - Interactive map Suburbs' portion There have been 119,378 COVID-19 cases in the suburbs as of Friday. That's 46.3% of the state's total, according to the Ill...
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Readers still have questions about COVID-19Sep 11, 2020 1:00 pm - Many of you continue to have questions about the novel coronavirus. “If a sneeze can spread the virus, can exhaling also spread the virus?” a reader asked. “So many time...