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Joe Rau wears Chicago flag socks for competition on April 9, 2016, at the U.S. Olympic wrestling trials at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.

How Olympic hopefuls are dealing with uncertainty and training interruptions, from baking to online Zumba classes

March 23, 2020 at 8:28 a.m.

U.S. wrestling champion Joe Rau is learning to bake. Three-time Olympic long jumper Tyrone Smith is binge-watching Netflix and building a Lego race car. Rhythmic gymnasts Yelyzaveta Merenzon and Elizaveta...

LaSalle Street. looking south, toward the empty Financial District on March 17, 2020.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker issues order requiring residents to ‘stay at home’ starting Saturday

March 25, 2020 at 11:53 a.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has issued a "stay-at-home" order for the entire state starting at 5 p.m. Saturday through at least April 7, marking Illinois' most aggressive step yet to try...

Many Oak Park residents and visitors stay away from Oak Park's usually crowded streets and sidewalks including the Lake Street Theatre at Lake St, in Oak Park on March 19, 2020. The city of Oak Park has issued a shelter in place order that starts Friday.

Oak Park’s shelter-in-place order is now in effect. Could the rest of Illinois soon follow?

March 20, 2020 at 7:13 p.m.

UPDATE: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a "stay-at-home" order for the entire state starting Saturday, a dramatic-sounding measure, but it largely codifies the recommendations and previous orders issued by state...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks at a news conference at the Thompson Center in Chicago on March 13, 2020.

Those trains you see transporting military vehicles? Illinois National Guard says they’re not part of enforcing a lockdown

March 20, 2020 at 5:27 p.m.

At ease, Chicago. The Illinois National Guard says it is not coming to put you on lockdown. With Gov. J.B. Pritzker confirming he is considering a "shelter-in-place order," questions arose...

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.

Officials report 46 people from DuPage nursing home have tested positive for coronavirus as Illinois cases spike to 288

March 18, 2020 at 8:30 p.m.

Doreen Hall stood outside her mom's first-floor window on Wednesday morning to get in a short visit — even if it had to be outside the building. On Wednesday, officials...

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

Pritzker calling up National Guard unit with medical expertise to fight coronavirus

March 18, 2020 at 5:20 p.m.

A day after announcing he had activated an Illinois National Guard unit, Gov. J.B. Pritzker acknowledged more service members may be deployed to help combat the coronavirus. The governor called...

Marie Newman, a Democrat challenging U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski in the 3rd Congressional District, speaks with the baiduhai Editorial Board on Jan. 21, 2020.

Marie Newman defeats U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski in rematch between Democrats’ progressive and moderate wings

March 18, 2020 at 10:32 a.m.

Challenger Marie Newman claimed victory over Rep. Dan Lipinski on Tuesday night in a rematch of their nationally watched Democratic congressional primary that was a battle between the party's progressive...

A student wearing a mask and rubber gloves walks with other students to Lake View High School in Chicago on Monday, the last day of classes before a coronavirus-related shutdown of all CPS schools.

First the teachers strike, now the coronavirus: CPS shuts down for 2nd time this school year as fall walkout now looks like ‘dry run’ for new disruption

March 17, 2020 at 12:44 a.m.

By noon Monday, Kyle Hickman's two school-age children had painted, colored, constructed a spacecraft with Legos and taken a walk. Their afternoon plans included designated reading time and lessons through...

Governor cancels Illinois schools statewide until March 30 to slow the spread of coronavirus

March 13, 2020 at 8:51 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered all Illinois schools closed by Tuesday, sending parents scrambling to make alternative arrangements for the roughly 2 million children affected by the state's latest attempt to...

Anthony Gay becomes emotional while speaking March 10, 2020, about his years in solitary confinement. Attorney Sarah Grady is consoling him.

Anthony Gay’s decades in solitary confinement led to self-mutilation. Now a proposed law to limit prisoner isolation in Illinois is named in his honor.

March 10, 2020 at 7:26 p.m.

Spurred by a baiduhai investigation involving a man who spent two decades in isolation after being convicted of stealing a hat and a single dollar bill, a proposed state...

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