WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are giving cleaning and disinfecting tips for schools and workplaces to help deal with the coronavirus. The Environmental Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the cleaning guidelines Wednesday. The guidelines urge ...Read more
FOSTER CITY, California – (AP) A biotech company says its experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major U.S. government study that put it to a strict test. Gilead Sciences’s remdesivir would be the first treatment to pass such a test against the virus, ...Read more
ENERGY, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois police chief is expressing skepticism about Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s power to issue stay-at-home orders to combat the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to residents of the village of Energy, Police Chief Shawn Ladd says he and his department have no ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — New video shows Chicago police shooting an unarmed short-order cook in the stomach and then again with his back turned to officers after they tried to stop him in a subway station for earlier walking from one train car to another. The Chicago Transit Authority and police body-cam ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois governor says a statewide stay-at-home order aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus remains in place through May 30. Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s announcement Tuesday followed a southern Illinois judge’s ruling that the Democrat exceeded his ...Read more
CHICAGO (Chicago Tribune) — Chicago police have issued a citation for disorderly conduct to a homeowner following a crowded weekend house party that was condemned by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Chicago police spokesman Luis Agostini says officers responded to the northwest side ...Read more
DIXON – Three more residents of Lee County have positive test results for COVID-19, including a teenager. On Tuesday, the Lee County Health Department reported that among the new cases is a person in their 60’s, one in their 20’s and one is in their late teens. Since the Pandemic ...Read more
PONTIAC- The Illinois Department of Public Health updated the statewide figures of new infections of the novel Coronavirus Tuesday. They now say out of the tests completed, they have had a total of 8 positive cases since the pandemic began. There was no information available as to how many ...Read more
ROCHELLE- The Ogle County Health Department announced Tuesday that since the pandemic began, they have had 116 positive tests and two deaths from the novel Coronavirus. The Illinois Department of Public Health released statistics that show 85 of the cases are in or around the community of ...Read more
MENDOTA- The Illinois Department of Public Health updated the statewide figures of new infections of the novel Coronavirus on Tuesday. They now say that within the Mendota area, they have had a total of 14 positive cases since the pandemic began. There was no information available as to how ...Read more
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