Articles filed under Health Crises
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Trump administration buries detailed CDC advice on reopeningMay 07, 2020 1:00 am - GAINESVILLE, Fla. - The Trump administration shelved a document created by the nation's top disease investigators with step-by-step advice to local authorities on how an...
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Agreement reached to avert strike at area nursing homesMay 07, 2020 1:00 am - A union representing nursing home workers and an association of roughly 100 nursing homes in and around Chicago reached a deal to avoid a strike that could have started ...
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Illinois surpasses 3,000 COVID-19 deaths, 1 million unemployment claims processedMay 07, 2020 1:00 am - Illinois has passed another grim milestone as state officials have now recorded more than 3,000 deaths from COVID-19. Another 138 people died in the past 24 hours, bring...
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Pitchfork cancels three-day music festivalMay 06, 2020 11:00 am - Wednesday morning, organizers for the Pitchfork Music Festival pulled the plug on this year's edition of the three-day fest because of concerns about coronavirus. "It c...
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Innovation amid separation: How three suburban teachers keep kids engagedMay 06, 2020 5:30 am - With e-learning, teachers are reinventing how to engage and inspire students using new tools since the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools. Three suburban educators share t...
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Naperville delaying $24.9 million in spending to offset pandemic lossesMay 06, 2020 5:14 am - The city of Naperville is shaving nearly $25 million off its 2020 budget in the wake of the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The spending cut of $2...
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Today's Recommended Read: "Crazy River" by Richard GrantMay 06, 2020 5:06 am - Teeming with man-eating crocodiles, killer hippopotamuses and deadly diseases, the Malagarasi River in Tanzania is the title subject of Richard Grant's 2011 release "Cra...
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Song to make you smile: 'Let Your Love Flow'May 06, 2020 5:06 am - We're trying to inject a little positivity in the paper (and on dailyherald.com) with a daily "Song to Make You Smile." It's designed to help lift you out of your corona...
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Pandemic an unprecedented challenge for convention centers in Rosemont, SchaumburgMay 06, 2020 5:00 am - The COVID-19 pandemic has had a big enough impact on businesses whose customers are nearby, but convention centers like those in Rosemont and Schaumburg have lost even l...
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'You have to take this serious. It's not a joke': Aurora COVID-19 survivors tell their storiesMay 06, 2020 1:00 am - Ron Walker never believed he would get COVID-19. Even when he developed a fever that wouldn't break, the 51-year-old Aurora man thought he would be fine. But his wife kn...