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The Life Care Center of Kirkland, a nursing home tied to several deaths from the novel coronavirus, in Kirkland, Wash., March 1, 2020. If you have a loved one in a facility, should you be concerned about their health and safety? And what, if anything, can you do?

Apprehension about coronavirus prompts officials to close polling places at nursing homes

March 7, 2020 at 10:36 a.m.

Amid growing concerns about the coronavirus, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners has opted to close designated polling places inside nursing homes for Election Day. The city made the decision...

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

CPS special education classroom assistant tested positive with coronavirus, marking Illinois’ 6th patient

March 6, 2020 at 9:46 p.m.

A Chicago Public Schools special education classroom assistant has tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases in Illinois to six and ratcheting up local anxiety over a...

Rev. Hans Zollner, president of the Center for Child Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University, on March 2, 2020.

Cupich on new Catholic Church abuse protection task force: ‘Regaining trust has to begin with a profound sense of responsibility’

March 3, 2020 at 5:23 p.m.

In their first interview since Pope Francis named them among the leaders of a new worldwide task force on sexual abuse protections, Cardinal Blase Cupich and the Rev. Hans Zollner...

People move away from a crime scene near the CTA Red Line Grand station on Feb. 28, 2020, in Chicago.

‘Shoot him’: Viral video appears to show police shooting at Grand Red Line station

February 29, 2020 at 10:01 p.m.

In a viral video of a police shooting that Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls "extremely disturbing," two Chicago officers appear to struggle to handcuff a man while one of them repeatedly...

Chicago police transit cops shoot man ‘jumping from train to train’ during struggle at Red Line Grand stop; video emerges on social media

February 29, 2020 at 11:56 a.m.

Chicago police shot a man at the CTA's Grand Red Line station Friday afternoon, authorities said. The man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he remains in critical but...

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Apprehension about coronavirus prompts officials to close polling places at nursing homes

CPS special education classroom assistant tested positive with coronavirus, marking Illinois’ 6th patient

Cupich on new Catholic Church abuse protection task force: ‘Regaining trust has to begin with a profound sense of responsibility’

‘Shoot him’: Viral video appears to show police shooting at Grand Red Line station

Chicago police transit cops shoot man ‘jumping from train to train’ during struggle at Red Line Grand stop; video emerges on social media

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