Articles filed under Coronavirus
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Masks optional in District 58 starting MondayFeb 11, 2022 12:00 am - Masks will be optional in Downers Grove Grade School District 58 schools starting Monday. School board members voted Thursday to modify the district's COVID-19 mitigatio...
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Stevenson High students' mask protest Friday got unruly, officials sayFeb 11, 2022 12:00 am - About 50 students and 40 parents gathered Friday morning outside Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire to protest the school's mask mandate. Superintendent Eric Twadell ...
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Pediatric experts: Masks are key to preventing COVID-19 infections at schoolFeb 10, 2022 4:00 am - Pediatric experts say there's no argument masks are key in reducing the spread of COVID-19, even as lawyers debate whether Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration is authori...
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Lake County considers options for second round of federal relief fundingFeb 10, 2022 12:00 am - The books are closed on $121 million in federal CARES Act funds and Lake County officials now are considering how best to allocate the second injection of COVID relief m...
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Illinois COVID-19 hospitalizations drop below 2,400Feb 10, 2022 12:00 am - For the first time since November, there are fewer than 2,400 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Illinois. State health officials Thursday reported 2,380 COVID-19 patient...
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Kaneland district cancels Friday classesFeb 10, 2022 12:00 am - School will be canceled Friday for students in Kaneland School District 302 so that administrators can plan COVID-19 mitigation strategies, district officials said. The...
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Despite student protests, mask mandates in place at several Lake County schoolsFeb 10, 2022 12:00 am - Despite anti-mask mandate protests lead by high school students in Mundelein, Gurnee, Libertyville and Vernon Hills, school officials said they will keep masking policie...
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Schaumburg mayor's call for return to in-person work catches eye of Chicago mediaFeb 09, 2022 10:00 pm - Chicago television and radio took interest this week in the Daily Herald's coverage of Schaumburg Mayor Tom Dailly's state of the village address, in which he asked the ...
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Archdiocese of Chicago making masks optional for suburban schools starting ThursdayFeb 09, 2022 12:00 am - The Archdiocese of Chicago will make masks optional for students in most of its suburban Catholic schools beginning today. Greg Richmond, superintendent of schools for t...
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Pritzker to drop mask mandate indoors by Feb. 28, but not yet for schoolsFeb 09, 2022 12:00 am - If COVID-19 metrics continue to improve, Illinoisans can cast off their masks indoors in most public spaces on Feb. 28, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday, but schools wi...