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Advocate Aurora Health requiring vaccinations for workersAug 04, 2021 7:00 am - DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (AP) - Advocate Aurora Health will require its 75,000 employees in Illinois and Wisconsin to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by Oct. 15, the hospita...
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Pandemic travel bans divide loved ones across bordersAug 04, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Quintin Sweat and Renée Harrison live only 15 minutes apart by car, with the U.S.-Canada border between them. But the couple, who got engaged in 2019, ...
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On 20th anniversary of 9/11, annual stair climb remembers firefighters' sacrificeAug 04, 2021 6:00 am - We will never forget. As a nation, we will always remember where we were when we heard about the airplanes hitting the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001. We wi...
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Illinois COVID-19 cases triple, vaccinations down by half in one monthAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - In just one month, new COVID-19 infections more than tripled, but vaccinations dropped nearly by half, Illinois Department of Public Health data showed. The latest mutat...
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Des Plaines officer who accidentally shot teen won't be prosecutedAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - The Cook County state's attorney's office has declined to prosecute a Des Plaines police officer who accidentally shot a teenager in 2019 at a Northwest Side music schoo...
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Aurora teen killed in Chicago crash that family believes was attempted carjackingAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - A 16-year-old girl from Aurora died after a crash in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood Tuesday night, but her family does not believe it was an accident. Chicago police sai...
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Dillard weighs third run for governorAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - A former Republican state legislator and veteran of two past GOP gubernatorial administrations said Wednesday he's weighing a bid to join the field of candidates vying f...
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Pritzker announces mask mandate for schools, vaccine rules for state workersAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - Go>. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday announced a universal face mask mandate inside public and private schools and day cares to combat the highly infectious COVID-19 delta v...
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Hyde Park Summer Fest called offAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - Rising COVID-19 cases have prompted organizers of another Chicago festival to cancel their plans for 2021. In June, Jonathan Swain, Hyde Park Summer Fest co-organizer, h...
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Suburban Chicago man gets probation in mom's beating deathAug 03, 2021 7:00 am - GENEVA, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to four years of probation after pleading guilty to beating his mother to death with a baseball ball after ...