Articles filed under Health Crises
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Student in District 10 tests positiveAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - In a letter to families, Itasca Elementary District 10 Superintendent Craig Benes said the student did not attend classes Monday. Benes attached guidance from the DuPage...
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Brief Zoom glitches didn't mar start of classes, school leaders sayAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Global partial outages of Zoom videoconferencing services caused some consternation Monday for educators and students in a few suburban districts that began the school y...
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Lake Zurich extends outdoor dining approvalAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Lake Zurich Mayor Thomas Poynton has extended the village's approval for restaurants to offer expanded outdoor dining into 2021, or whenever the village's local emergenc...
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Kane County libraries make late plea for COVID-19 relief fundsAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated to change the date to apply for funding to Sept. 15 and deleted a sentence about when the county board would vote on the f...
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Elgin COVID Response Fund to grant second round of fundingAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - A COVID-19 response fund created to help Elgin nonprofit groups will launch a second round of grant funding and has expanded the services it's looking to support. The E...
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Trump announces plasma treatment authorized for COVID-19Aug 24, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump announced emergency authorization to treat COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma - a move he called "a breakthrough," one of his...
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Driver's license office in Des Plaines closed after employee tests positiveAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - The Des Plaines driver services facility will be closed until Sept. 4 as a precaution because an employee tested positive for COVID-19, according to a news release from ...
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District 204 middle school closed for cleaning after individual tests positive for COVID-19Aug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Still Middle School in Aurora was shut down Monday after someone who had recently been inside the building tested positive for the coronavirus. The facility at 787 Meado...
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State cracks down on Will and Kankakee counties, bans indoor diningAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Indoor dining, bar service banned
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Temperature scans, symptom checks welcome St. Viator students back to schoolAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Symptom checks and temperature scans joined new classes and meetups with old friends as essential elements of the first day of school Monday at St. Viator High School in...