Articles filed under Health Crises
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How pandemic could prompt cities to step back from car-centric designOct 24, 2020 1:00 am - Like much of California, the city of Oakland was under a shelter-in-place order in March, leaving its population of around 430,000 few options for getting out of the hou...
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Red ribbons bring awareness to Elgin drug prevention campaignOct 24, 2020 1:00 am - Volunteers and community members spent part of their Saturday tying red ribbons on a pair of downtown Elgin bridges to raise awareness for the need for drug abuse preven...
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Schaumburg Business Association honors members' efforts during pandemic yearOct 23, 2020 9:05 pm - In a year it wasn't able to play a single game due to the pandemic, the Schaumburg Boomers baseball team received the Schaumburg Business Association's Brian H. Burke Bu...
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AstraZeneca, J&J resuming US tests of COVID-19 vaccinesOct 23, 2020 7:00 am - Two drugmakers announced Friday the resumption of U.S. testing of their COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Testing of AstraZeneca's vaccine candidate had been halted since ear...
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US suicide rate fell last year after decade of steady riseOct 23, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. suicide rate fell slightly last year, the first annual decline in more than a decade, according to new government data. It's a small decrease an...
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Revenue shortfall due to COVID-19 delays some capital projects, hiring in ItascaOct 23, 2020 5:30 am - Itasca's revenue has dropped roughly $1 million between May and August because of the COVID-19 pandemic, causing the village to delay some capital projects and hiring. L...
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'A shutdown now would be a death sentence': Some suburban restaurants plan to defy closure orderOct 23, 2020 5:30 am - While other nearby restaurants shut their doors to indoor dining Friday, Ki's Steak and Seafood in Glendale Heights will still welcome people in. “We are Americans. We R...
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Indoor dining ban starts in DuPage, Kane, and so does defiance. How about enforcement?Oct 23, 2020 1:00 am - When a Wheaton gym defied Gov. J.B. Pritzker's stay-at-home order in May, local police issued a cease-and-desist order. That didn't mean Brickhaus Fitness immediately s...
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More schools return to remote learning following recommendation from health departmentOct 23, 2020 1:00 am - At least five McHenry County school districts have announced plans to return to or stick with remote learning as a result of an announcement from the health department t...
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Catholic grade schools will start 2021 remotelyOct 23, 2020 1:00 am - Catholic elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Chicago will pivot to remote learning for two weeks at the start of 2021. Schools will begin e-learning on Jan. 4 and w...