Articles filed under Coronavirus
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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...
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She said yes: Elk Grove Village man surprises front-line nurse with rooftop proposalSep 11, 2020 5:30 am - Like many, Elk Grove Village couple Zach Lefevre and Kayla Kennelly have had a tough couple of months. Kennelly is a front-line nurse at Loyola University Medical Center...
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Parents, students question District 214's reopening metricsSep 11, 2020 5:30 am - Amid increasing calls across the suburbs for a full return to school buildings, parents and students in the Northwest suburbs took their turn Thursday to express concern...
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Mano a Mano raises $400,000 in COVID-19 relief for immigrant and low-income familiesSep 11, 2020 1:00 am - The Mano A Mano Family Resource Center has raised $400,386 to assist 1,115 families affected financially by COVID-19. The Tanda Emergency Fund is for direct financial as...
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Drive-through Tootsie Roll Drive in PalatineSep 11, 2020 1:00 am - The Knights of Columbus in Palatine will hold their 2020 Tootsie Roll Drive, but for the first time in decades they will not solicit on street corners and outside stores...