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Georgia Kotinas, 85, protests in 2004 at the Thompson Center in Chicago over the shortage of flu vaccines available for senior citizens.

Vaccine shortages have led to theft, smuggling and doses going to the famous instead of the needy. Will it happen again with COVID-19?

December 7, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

Sixteen years ago, in the middle of a wretched Chicago Bears season, a scandal erupted at Halas Hall that had nothing to do with inept quarterbacking or sketchy play calling...

Returned items sit in quarantine before being placed back on the shelves at the Elmhurst Public Library on Nov. 23, 2020.

From food pantries to parking lot Wi-Fi, public libraries evolve during COVID-19 pandemic

November 30, 2020 at 1:56 p.m.

When Illinois' latest COVID-19 mitigation rules went into effect recently, public venues from casinos to museums were ordered to shut down as the virus continues its ruthless spread. One notable...

Coronavirus is striking American mink farms, but Illinois’ shrinking fur industry has so far escaped the virus

December 1, 2020 at 11:49 a.m.

Outbreaks of coronavirus have struck mink farms in Wisconsin and Michigan, but Illinois' shrinking fur industry so far appears to have remained free of the disease, the U.S. Department of...

Jacob Watson, a former sex educator who has advocated for harm reduction principles to be used against the COVID-19 pandemic, is seen on the North Side of Chicago on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020.

Can harm reduction, the philosophy that stems HIV transmission and heroin overdoses, help curb a Thanksgiving COVID-19 meltdown?

November 21, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

Millions of Americans appear set to defy government guidance to stay home this Thanksgiving, disregarding the growing peril of COVID-19 to gather with distant loved ones. To Erica Ernst, it...

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

Illinois reports 145 COVID-19 deaths, first triple-digit toll since early June; another daily record set with 12,657 new and probable cases

November 11, 2020 at 7:33 p.m.

Illinois public health officials on Wednesday reported 145 coronavirus-related deaths, the most in a single day since late May and the first time the daily death toll has reached triple...

Thad Reuter, brother of Rhoni Reuter, hugs assistant states attorney Patricia Fix after a verdict was reached in the Marni Yang trial at the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan.

Marni Yang’s attorney seeks new probe into murder of ex-Bear Shaun Gayle’s girlfriend, questioning former player’s alibi

November 10, 2020 at 6:14 p.m.

The attorney for Marni Yang, the woman convicted nine years ago of murdering the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle, has asked a judge to reopen the investigation,...

Kerry Senesac catches her dog, Bella, while Paula Deacon Garcia, a Democrat who was leading her race for a seat on the DuPage County Board, collects her campaign yard signs Nov. 6, 2020, in Lisle.

Blue wave drenches DuPage County, aiding Democratic transformation of one-time Republican stronghold. But will it last?

November 9, 2020 at 7:06 a.m.

The electoral blue wave predicted by political scientists might have fizzled in much of the U.S., but on Tuesday it drenched a corner of the Chicago area that, not long...

Poll worker Aana Vigen places a flag outside the Ward 49 voting site at the Rogers Park Library in the 6900 block of North Clark Street in Chicago, as Election Day voting begins early in the morning of Nov. 3, 2020.

Chicago-area voters’ Wednesday mood: From optimism to nerves to ‘grim forebearance’

November 4, 2020 at 4:00 p.m.

The poll numbers didn't look great for President Donald Trump as Election Day approached, but a different metric gave Frank Adams hope: Every weekend, the pro-Trump car rallies he helped...

Gary Franchi, founder of Next News Network, appears Oct. 19, 2020, in a western suburb.

Critics call Gary Franchi’s YouTube channel, the Next News Network, a hive of conspiracy theories. So how has it survived the platform’s conspiracy crackdown?

November 1, 2020 at 8:15 p.m.

The Next News Network is a YouTube channel produced in Chicago's western suburbs that pumps out a dozen or so aggressively partisan videos each day. They usually stick to praising...

Sarah Kennie has a Tab toast with her husband, J.R., and son Carter, 3, along with her siblings who joined on a video call in honor of their mom, Kathleen Berger.

After their mom died from COVID-19, her kids give a final toast with a beloved, hard-to-find token of her youth: Tab diet soda

October 28, 2020 at 8:47 a.m.

Kathleen Berger died in May from coronavirus-related causes, leaving behind eight kids and a legacy encapsulated by a bright pink soda can. Berger, who was 73, was a voracious consumer...

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