SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health reported on Saturday eight more people lost their lives due to Covid-19. At the same time, the state reported 1,639 additional positive coronavirus cases. Locally, the LaSalle County Health Department reported 16 new cases, ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Police say a 9-year-old boy was killed when a gunman fired several shots toward the Chicago parking lot where he was playing. Nobody else was injured in the shooting around 6 p.m. near the former Cabrini-Green housing projects on the city’s Near North Side. The boy was ...Read more
OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College said the number of high school students taking dual credit courses is down slightly during the audit-finance committee meeting. The dual credit/dual enrollment report on the number of high school juniors said that withdrawals were caused mainly ...Read more
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — The head of an Illinois nonprofit organization that has offered art experiences to nearly 3,000 youths and their families says it is developing a permanent location to showcase pieces independently as the group transitions away from Illinois State University. Since beginning ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker plans to move teenagers in state custody to smaller regional centers with a variety of services closer to their homes. Pritzker says, “The 150-year-old punitive model simply” doesn’t work. There now are five sites in Illinois, but ...Read more
By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois public health officials are urging additional vigilance by local officials in 11 counties where there are upticks in COVID-19 cases. The counties are in “warning level” status because of the spread of the ...Read more
OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department says 16 people were reported Infected with the virus since Thursday afternoon. On Friday, health officials said the 16 range in age from two men in their 20s to a woman in her 80s. That makes 483 total cases, and with the 3 reported ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – Coronavirus continues to pick up steam in Illinois, with 1941 cases reported on Friday. That’s the most reported cases in one day since late May. The local area continues to see increases too, with 12 new cases reported in Bureau County. Statewide, 21 people lost their ...Read more
PONTIAC – Four more residents of Livingston County have tested positive for coronavirus disease. The Livingston County Health Department said Thursday that a male in his 50s, female in her 30s, female in her 70s, and a male in his 30s, who was asymptomatic at the time of testing, all ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman who last month became the nation’s first COVID-19 patient to undergo a double lung transplant says she woke up days later, unaware about the surgery and unable to “recognize my body.” Mayra Ramirez said that before she fell ill she was an ...Read more
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