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Glendale Heights hires security firm to review arrest caught on videos that appear to show officer punching woman

June 3, 2020 at 7:59 a.m.

Glendale Heights in the western suburbs has hired a security risk management firm to review an arrest caught on videos that appear to show an officer punching a woman during...

City View Multicare Center nursing home, 5825 W. Cermak Road, Cicero, on April 24, 2020.

COVID-19 deaths at Illinois long-term care facilities top 2,700

May 30, 2020 at 12:12 p.m.

An additional 345 residents and workers at Illinois' long-term care facilities have died of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 2,747, according to state data released Friday. The latest figures...

The state tried to test for COVID-19 in every nursing home. It’s now ordering homes to do it themselves.

May 28, 2020 at 6:54 p.m.

Citing the devastating toll COVID-19 has taken in nursing homes, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday ordered all long-term facilities to figure out how to test residents and staff for the...

Margaret Orozco pushes her bike to get tested for coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020.

What’s the recovery rate for COVID-19 in Illinois? That number is now available. But it’s complicated.

May 27, 2020 at 8:15 p.m.

As the state moves toward easing restrictions aimed at curbing the coronavirus pandemic, health officials have offered a new way to study how often people are recovering from the infection....

The Elisabeth Ludeman Developmental Center is shown April 9, 2020, in Park Forest. It has the most cases COVID-19 cases of 268.

Coronavirus deaths at long-term care facilities grow to nearly 2,000, accounting for nearly half of overall state total

May 16, 2020 at 11:04 a.m.

In the past week, Illinois recorded an additional 422 coronavirus deaths tied to long-term care facilities, bringing the tally of such deaths to nearly 2,000 since the pandemic began, according...

Sylvia Hardy keeps a face mask lowered while standing in her front porch in the 700 block of South Kilbourn Avenue on May 9, 2020, in Chicago. Hardy's grandson, 15-year-old Demetrius Hardy, was fatally shot at the front porch on April 8, 2020, and her youngest son, Dennis Glover, 28, was also fatally shot at the front of the home on Dec. 26, 2013. The 60624 ZIP code, where she lives, has among the city's highest reported cases of COVID-19 and rates of gun violence.

COVID-19 hitting hardest in Chicago ZIP codes already struggling with deadly threat of gun violence

May 16, 2020 at 7:25 p.m.

On a recent Saturday morning at Springfield Avenue and Wilcox Street, residents wearing masks walked dogs past blooming red tulips. A family stepped onto their porch with laundry bags stuffed...

City View Multi-Care Center nursing home in Cicero on April 24, 2020.

Short staffing. PPE shortages. Few inspections. Why calls are growing for Illinois nursing home regulators to step up efforts on COVID-19.

May 13, 2020 at 6:31 p.m.

Early in April, a nurse working at a massive Cicero nursing home was worried that lax infection control was putting residents in danger of catching the coronavirus. According to an...

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