DIXON – Over the holiday weekend, KSB Hospital received 3 new positive test results for Lee County and Monday the health department received 1. The Lee County Health Department said two of the residents are in their 60’s, one in their 30’s and one in their 20’s. Lee County is ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Officials say a third Cook County Jail detainee who tested positive for the coronavirus has died. The sheriff’s office says 42-year-old Nicholas Lee died Sunday. Jail officials suspect he died of cardiac arrest, but a cause of death won’t be determined until an ...Read more
DEKALB – The DeKalb County Health Department have listed a total of 36 cases of COVID-19 and one death. That is an increase of four cases found over the weekend. On March 21, 2020, DeKalb County identified its first positive case of COVID-19. The first death in the county was ...Read more
PONTIAC- One more resident of Livingston County has tested positive for COVID-19. The Livingston County Health Department announced Monday that the individual is a male in his 30s who is recovering at home in isolation. LCHD officials continue to work closely with the Illinois Department of ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health Monday announced 1,173 new cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 74 additional deaths. Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 22,025 cases, including 794 deaths, in 87 counties in Illinois. The age of cases ranges from younger than one ...Read more
OTTAWA – One additional case has recovered and that person has been released from isolation. The total number of recovered individuals for LaSalle County is 7. That’s according to the latest numbers released Monday by the LaSalle County Health Department. All LaSalle County ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD- Governor JB Pritzker has activated approximately 80 additional Illinois National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from throughout the state in support of COVID-19 response operations bringing the total number of activated Illinois National Guard members to about 650. Ten of those ...Read more
PRINCETON- A sixth resident of Bureau County has tested positive for COVID-19. On Monday the Bureau, Putnam and Marshall County health Department announced that a man in his 50’s was screened and tested by an area hospital. The individual is recovering at home at this time. Public health ...Read more
PERU – North Peoria Street in Peru will be closed from the south side of 26th Street to south of Midtown Road beginning Monday, April 13th. This section of road will be fully closed until further notice for the reconstruction of North Peoria Street. There will be no through traffic in the ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois farmers produced 2.3 million pounds of industrial hemp in the first year of legal cultivation in decades, state officials said.The Illinois Department of Agriculture began issuing hemp-production permits last spring after production was legalized. Of 651 ...Read more
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