Articles filed under Illinois
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Man walking on Illinois interstate dies after truck hits himMay 16, 2020 7:00 am - BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A 62-year-old man died after being struck by a truck as he walked on an Illinois interstate on Friday, State Police said. The Belleville News-Dem...
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Agency's request to Pritzker on Restore Illinois plan 'softened'May 16, 2020 1:00 am - A potential request to reduce a standard for moving from one phase to the next of Gov. J.B. Pritzker's Restore Illinois plan was not included in a letter to him from an ...
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May 16 COVID-19 cases per county; search by ZIP codeMay 15, 2020 1:00 am - Interactive map The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 2,088 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday in Illinois, including 74 additional deaths. Here ...
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Some Northwest suburbs ask to be split from Chicago in governor's Restore Illinois planMay 15, 2020 1:00 am - This story was corrected 3 p.m. May 16 to reflect that the Northwest Municipal Conference did not ask that the requirement for moving to the next phase of recovery b...
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Chicago, suburbs hit testing milestone, on track to easing stay-at-home restrictionsMay 14, 2020 1:00 am - Chicago and the suburbs appear on track to meet standards allowing the region by May 29 to relax the stay-at-home restrictions enacted to prevent the spread of COVID-19,...
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Nearly 73,000 more file for unemployment in IllinoisMay 14, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The U.S. saw nearly 3 million more unemployment claims the week ending May 9, including 72,993 in Illinois, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The...
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Illinois coroner blames overdose spike in part on virusMay 13, 2020 7:00 am - WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - There has been a spike in opioid overdose deaths in a northern Illinois county in recent weeks and it could be because of increased isolation due to...
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General Assembly to take up work May 20 in SpringfieldMay 13, 2020 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois General Assembly will return to Springfield for three days next week to take up a spring session workload long delayed by the coron...
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Chicago, Rockford, Joliet dioceses: State OKs plan to start reopening churches as soon as May 23May 13, 2020 1:00 am - Catholic churches could start reopening as soon as May 23 under a plan Chicago-area church leaders say is approved by the state. Citing an agreement with the governor's ...
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Pritzker warns of 'consequences' for defying stay-at-home orderMay 13, 2020 1:00 am - As Illinois health officials reported the state's highest-single day spike in COVID-19 deaths with 192 new fatalities Wednesday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker warned politicians, r...