Articles filed under Health Crises
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Underwood, Oberweis clash on when to reopenApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - The contrasting views of the 14th Congressional District candidates on how ready the country is to reopen became clear Thursday as Congress approved another COVID-19 rel...
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Cookies for Caregivers accepting donationsApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - The Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network - a nonprofit organ procurement organization that coordinates organ and tissue donation and provides public education on ...
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Big crowds on first day of COVID-19 testing facility in AuroraApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - A fourth state-run drive-through COVID-19 testing facility opened Thursday morning in Aurora to a long line of vehicles and reached capacity in just 4½ hours. Aurora pol...
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Virus traps, sickens foreign laborers in Gulf Arab statesApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Long a lifeline for families back home, migrant workers in oil-rich Gulf Arab states now find themselves trapped by the coronavirus pandemi...
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Legal battles loom as businesses hit by virus sue insurersApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - CHICAGO - A once-bustling bar and grill tucked below a Michigan Avenue overpass famously inspired a "Saturday Night Live" skit starring John Belushi and Bill Murray. But...
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DeVos excludes DACA recipients, foreign students from grantsApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - The Trump administration is barring most international students and all students who entered the U.S. illegally from receiving emergency college grants approved by Congr...
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Virus pushes U.S. unemployment toward highest since DepressionApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Unemployment in the U.S. is swelling to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American workers thrown out of a job by the cor...
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Iran, like wider Mideast, relies on deliveries amid pandemicApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - TEHRAN, Iran - For some $15 a day, deliverymen don masks and gloves in Iran's capital to zip across its pandemic-subdued streets to drop off groceries and food for those...
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'Mundelein Strong' T-shirts raise $1,050 for food banksApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - Mundelein residents with a desire to give back partnered with a local screen printer to raise $1,050 in a little more than two weeks. Martijn Loerakker said the money fr...
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How a Geneva family turned their nightly dinners at home into a themed occasionApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - Twenty-one days. Twenty-one themed dinners. Twenty-one sets of coordinating costumes, props and activities. Stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, the McCall fam...