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Gov. J. B. Pritzker speaks during his daily press briefing on COVID-19 in the James R. Thompson Center earlier this month.

Illinois matches highest single-day death total from COVID-19, ending difficult week in battle against virus

April 18, 2020 at 7:10 p.m.

Illinois ended a grim week in its battle against COVID-19 on Saturday, as state officials announced 125 more deaths and 1,585 new confirmed cases. The daily death total tied Thursday's...

Sailors drill at the Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. The Lake County base is the home of the U.S. Navy's only boot camp.

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, 500 new Great Lakes Navy recruits will stay at Great Wolf Lodge for two weeks. Water slides will be off-limits, however.

April 17, 2020 at 7:56 p.m.

Next week, about 500 new recruits are expected to report to Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago, the first to arrive since the Navy stopped sending future sailors late...

An ambulance leaves the Chateau Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Willowbrook on March 17, 2020, where officials announced March 18 that those testing positive with COVID-19 had grown to 42 people.

Nearly 300 Illinois nursing home patients and staff have died from COVID-19, but the state won’t say which facilities are infected

April 18, 2020 at 7:29 p.m.

Nearly 300 Illinois nursing home patients and staff have died from COVID-19, but exactly where still remains largely cloaked in secrecy. Unlike some states, Illinois hasn't named specific facilities where...

Nicole Loye, on April 6, 2020, at her Chicago home. Loye is the sister of Wayne Antusas, who is in prison, charged in a 1995 double murder.

Inmates with ongoing innocence claims sit in prisons threatened by coronavirus as courts shut down

April 8, 2020 at 1:10 p.m.

Inmates Wayne Antusas and Nicholas Morfin have been approaching a potential turning point in their criminal cases — a chance to go before judges and argue their innocence in a...

Chicago police control traffic while the Illinois National Guard runs a coronavirus testing site for first responders March 23 on the Northwest Side.

Coronavirus pandemic leads to extension of Chicago Police Department reform deadlines

March 30, 2020 at 2:18 p.m.

The coronavirus pandemic is slowing the court-overseen process of reforming the Chicago Police Department. U.S District Judge Robert Dow Jr. has granted the city's request for an extension of deadlines...

Rosita Wood sits in her apartment in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood on March 27, 2020. She has been keeping busy since the stay-at-home order went into effect due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic, but it has caused her to cancel her plans for international travel.

Chicago’s first week under the stay-at-home order: Worry, togetherness and new traditions

March 27, 2020 at 5:13 p.m.

Faced with a government order to stay home, a family of five in Oak Park made the best of their unexpected time together by competing on their backyard basketball hoop...

Fake tests, fantasy cures and false government aid checks: Chicago authorities warn scammers are ramping up as coronavirus spreads

March 25, 2020 at 5:51 p.m.

As COVID-19 travels the world, scam artists are close behind. They're hawking bogus cures, and authorities at O'Hare International Airport have already seized a delivery of counterfeit tests. They're blasting...

Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside Heartland Health Centers in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

Illinois’ stay-at-home order — aimed at curtailing spread of coronavirus — is now in effect; Pritzker asks former medical personnel to return and ‘join the fight’

March 21, 2020 at 8:18 p.m.

Expert recommendations and previously voluntary precautions hardened into law at 5 p.m. Saturday as Gov. J.B. Pritzker's stay-at-home order took effect. The directive, aimed at slowing the barreling momentum of...

A Chicago police officer patrols the CTA Jackson Red Line subway station on March 5, 2020.

Chicago police and paramedics just announced their first coronavirus cases. How are they dealing with COVID-19 on the front line?

March 19, 2020 at 7:32 p.m.

By the nature of their work, Chicago's first responders are routinely in close quarters with people and duty-bound to perform in extreme situations. They have even been spat on. Covered...

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx appears at her election night gathering at Hotel Essex, March 17, 2020, in Chicago.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx claims nomination despite Jussie Smollett case, better-funded opponent

March 17, 2020 at 11:50 p.m.

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx survived a well-financed challenge from newcomer Bill Conway in the Democratic primary Tuesday. Foxx was surrounded by her husband and four daughters as she...

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