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State employment agency hit in nationwide fraud schemeJul 21, 2020 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Employment Security said Wednesday it has been affected by a nationwide fraud scheme involving the federal Pandemic Unemployment...
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Highest one-day infection count in Illinois since early JuneJul 21, 2020 11:00 pm - State health officials announced Wednesday that 23 more Illinois residents have died from COVID-19, while an additional 1,598 people have been infected. That's the large...
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IHSA postpones board meeting, will meet with state agencies FridayJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - Illinois High School Association executive director Craig Anderson said on Tuesday that the association's board meeting scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed to Jul...
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July 21 COVID-19 cases per county; search by ZIP code codeJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - Since the outbreak began, there have been 82,204 cases in the suburbs as of Tuesday, 50.2% of the state's total, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. T...
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Trump to send federal agents to Chicago, maybe other citiesJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is planning to deploy federal agents to Chicago and possibly other Democrat-run cities as he continues to assert federal power and us...
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State unveils six-year road, bridge improvement planJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker joined Illinois Department of Transportation officials Tuesday to unveil a six-year, $21.3 billion statewide road and bridge improvement...
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'Call a special session': Republicans want Pritkzer to act on corruption probeJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - Republican lawmakers pressured Democrats and Gov. J.B. Pritzker Tuesday to reconvene the General Assembly to address the corruption scandal engulfing ComEd and implicati...
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Illinois reports 23 more deaths, 955 new COVID-19 casesJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - Cases of COVID-19 rose by 955 and deaths from the respiratory disease increased by 23, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported Tuesday. That brings the statewi...
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Pandemic throws lives - and waistlines - into fluxJul 20, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - When Allison Weiss Brady and Michael Ladin emerged from weeks of locking down during the pandemic, they needed new clothes in new sizes - for different r...
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Man sentenced for his part in 2017 murder, dismembermentJul 20, 2020 7:00 am - MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (AP) - A southern Illinois man who admitted his role in the 2017 murder and dismemberment of a DeSoto man was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison. J...