SPRINGFIELD- Secretary of State Jesse White and Governor JB Pritzker have partnered to temporarily allow Illinois notaries public the authority to perform remote, online notarizations during the COVID-19 pandemic under the governor’s executive order. Notaries can now use real-time ...Read more
DIXON – As the pandemic crisis continues, Lee County State’s Attorney Charley Boonstra warns of an increase in scams related to COVID-19. His office has received reports of robocalls and fraudulent emails to individuals hoping to get personal information like social security numbers, ...Read more
OTTAWA – The LaSalle County man who was the fourth case in the county with COVID-19 has passed away. The release Saturday Morning from the LaSalle County Health Department said the man was in his 80’s. Administrator Julie Kerestes said “We are deeply saddened to hear of the ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – More Illinois National Guard Soliders and Airmen are being called into service to help with the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Governor J.B. Pritzker has activated 50 Soldiers from the 3637th Maintenance Company and 10 service members with the 3625th Maintenance Company to ...Read more
CINCINNATI (AP) — With business sinking under coronavirus outbreak restrictions, restaurants are transforming operations and menus to try to stay afloat. For an Italian restaurant in New York City, that meant sending meals out for delivery for the first time, an effort it decided Friday to ...Read more
OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department says a man in his 80’s is the fourth to come down with the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19. On Friday they say the individual is in isolation at a hospital. No further information was given due to privacy laws, but they advise the ...Read more
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian media reports nearly 300 people have been killed and more than 1,000 sickened by ingesting toxic methanol across the Islamic Republic out of the false belief it kills the new coronavirus. That’s as messages forwarded through social media about people surviving ...Read more
DIXON – Lee County officials participated in a phone conference Wednesday with Surgeon General Jerome Adams and several other high-ranking government officials. Surgeon General Adams placed significant emphasis on the importance of the response at the local level and “social distancing” ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s plan to reserve at least 1,000 hotel rooms for coronavirus patients through partnerships with five hotels is the first such strategy unveiled in the U.S. But it’s unlikely to be the last. Government officials nationwide are searching for ways to relieve ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A frustrated Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she’s thinking about closing city trails and parks after seeing large “packs” of people on the trails along Lake Michigan. The state of Illinois is under a stay-at-home order designed to slow the spread of the ...Read more
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