Articles filed under Health Crises
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Attorney general asks Clay County judge to rule on last issue in legislator's coronavirus lawsuitJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois attorney general's office on Tuesday night asked a downstate judge to address the one outstanding issue in Rep. Darren Bailey's lawsuit challe...
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COVID-19 antibody testing in NapervilleJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - Oswald's Pharmacy in Naperville is set to begin an FDA-approved antibody testing process for COVID-19 on Friday. The sixth-generation family-owned pharmacy at 88 W. Gart...
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980 new cases and 36 deaths in Illinois; Pritzker calls for national mask ruleJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker decried the federal response to the COVID-19 outbreak during a congressional hearing Wednesday, as state health officials announced 36 more residents ...
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Lake Zurich District 95 suspends all sports camps after athletes test positive for COVID-19Jul 08, 2020 1:00 am - All Lake Zurich District 95 sports camps have been suspended — and its participants urged to quarantine — after “a number of families” reported that students who partici...
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'Virtual' fist-bumps: High school baseball returns amid the pandemicJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - Two high school baseball teams returned to the diamond Wednesday in West Chicago under different protocol than past summers. No sunflower seeds were spit. No water bottl...
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'It brought me back to 40 years ago': Phil's Beach reopens in WaucondaJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - It wasn't her plan, but Cindy Reilly was so early getting to the newly reopened Phil's Beach in Wauconda on Wednesday morning that she became the first customer through ...
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Driver's license expirations extended until Nov. 1Jul 08, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Expiration dates for driver's licenses, identification cards and license plate stickers have been extended one more month to Nov. 1, Illinois Secretary of ...
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Window into virus surge: Death, recovery at Houston hospitalJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - HOUSTON - A few weeks after more than 100 people attended her husband's funeral, the widow herself was on the brink of death. Her oxygen levels had fallen deadly low due...
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Home of the Sparrow's online auction opens July 13Jul 07, 2020 11:00 pm - While the world may be on pause, homelessness does not stop. Neither does the work Home of the Sparrow does to provide families with shelter, affordable housing, case ma...
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Health panel may open lung cancer screening to more smokersJul 07, 2020 7:00 am - A U.S. health panel wants to widen the number of Americans offered yearly scans for lung cancer by opening the screening to less-heavy smokers. Lung cancer is the nation...