Articles filed under Health Crises
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Lake County government employees collect food for Northern Illinois Food BankApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - More than 25 Lake County government employees volunteered their time Thursday for a food collection event in Waukegan. The county courthouse's parking garage served as ...
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Buffalo Grove mayor orders face coverings be worn at essential businessesApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - Buffalo Grove Village President Beverly Sussman has issued an executive order requiring the use of face coverings over the nose and mouth for everyone 5 years of age and...
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Church making Sunshine CallsApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - Teen and adult volunteers from Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Aurora are making Sunshine Calls to seniors to help them stay connected during the COVID-19 pandemic....
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What others are writing about COVID-19Apr 23, 2020 1:00 am - A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients Autopsies of some COVID-19 patients are showing lungs filled with hundreds of tiny blood cl...
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Cook County officials: COVID-19 absent in juvenile detaineesApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - None of the 88 general population residents selected for testing at Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, health c...
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Naperville projects 'significant' revenue shortfall from virus shutdownApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - Naperville is projecting a 15% reduction in general fund revenue because of business shutdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which creates a roughly $18 million budge...
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26 million have sought U.S. jobless aid since virus hitApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across an economy that remains all but shut do...
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Relief Cloud Tutors help workers' kidsApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - A group of high school students organized under the Naperville nonprofit organization KidsMatter has formed Relief Cloud Tutors to provide free online tutoring to childr...
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White House shifts from raising alarms to reopening countryApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - For weeks, the Trump administration played up the dangers of the coronavirus as it sought to persuade Americans to disrupt their lives and stay home. Now, a...
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Illinois rents refrigerated trailers as COVID-19 morgue contingencyApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois has rented refrigerated semitrailer trucks to store the bodies of COVID-19 victims in case morgues become filled to capacity. The "more than 20" t...