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A man is tested for the coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020. (Antonio Perez / baiduhai)

Today in History: COVID death toll hits 1 million

By Associated Press

September 28, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.

On Sept. 28, 2020, the worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic reached 1 million, according...

Gov. JB Pritzker joined Mayor Lori Lightfoot, right, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle, second from left, and public health experts in updating residents on March 12, 2020, in the early days of the pandemic. Illinois, Chicago and Cook County received $11 billion through the American Rescue Plan Act amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A Tribune-University of Chicago Mansueto Institute analysis revealed few efforts to identify potential waste and abuse of that money. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Illinois, Chicago, Cook County got $11B in pandemic aid but there were gaps in oversight and transparency

By Dan Petrella

September 13, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The Tribune and the University of Chicago's Mansueto Institute examined how Illinois, Chicago and Cook...

A certified medical assistant holds a syringe for a flu vaccine at a clinic in Seattle on Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Top US doctors offer updated flu and COVID vaccine recommendations, aiming to ease confusion

By Lauren Neergaard

September 2, 2026 at 9:16 a.m.

Leading U.S. medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this...

A vial of the Phase 3 Novavax coronavirus vaccine prepared for use in a trial at St. George's University hospital in London, Oct. 7, 2020.

FDA advisers meeting on Novavax, a latecomer in COVID-19 vaccine race

By The New York Times

June 7, 2022 at 9:54 a.m.

A federal advisory committee Tuesday will vote on whether regulators should authorize a COVID-19 vaccine...

New trial begins Monday for Geneva man accused of murdering his wife

By Megan Jones

June 5, 2022 at 12:38 p.m.

The retrial of a Geneva man who was previously found guilty of murdering his wife...

Prepared Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine syringes for children ages 5 to 11 and adults are displayed on a table at Northwest Community Church in Chicago, Dec. 11, 2021.

First COVID vaccine shots for kids under 5 possible by June 21, White House says

By Associated Press

June 2, 2022 at 3:03 p.m.

The Biden administration said Thursday that children under 5 may be able to get their...

A hiring sign is displayed outside a retail store in Vernon Hills, Illinois, on Nov. 13, 2021. Fewer Americans applied for jobless aid last week with the number of Americans collecting unemployment at historically low levels.

Fewer Americans apply for unemployment benefits last week

By Associated Press

June 2, 2022 at 10:04 a.m.

Fewer Americans applied for jobless aid last week with the number of Americans collecting unemployment...

Customers inside this area ice cream shop were unmasked and very close to one another Sunday. Employees were masked.

Officials say many ignoring Lake County’s return to high-risk coronavirus status; ‘COVID is not gone’

By Steve Sadin

May 31, 2022 at 6:08 p.m.

As indoor mask mandates issued as protection against the spread of COVID-19 became a thing...

Coonley Elementary librarian Nora Wiltse outside of the North Center neighborhood school Tuesday. Now in her 19th year with CPS, she anticipates that she'll lose her job because of budget cuts.

CPS librarian who spoke out against library cuts said she expects to lose her job

By Tracy Swartz

June 1, 2022 at 6:08 a.m.

Just two years ago, the American Library Association honored Chicago Public Schools librarian Nora Wiltse...

FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. WHO's top monkeypox expert Dr. Rosamund Lewis said she doesn't expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it's spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunization decades ago may somehow be speeding its transmission. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

¿Quién está protegido contra la viruela del mono?

By The New York Times

May 31, 2022 at 3:59 p.m.

Para un mundo agotado de luchar contra el coronavirus, el brote de la viruela del...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moved DuPage, Will and other northern Illinois counties to the "high" level of COVID-19 community transmission. While the CDC advises people to wear a well-fitting mask indoors in public, regardless of vaccination status, but it is not mandatory.

CDC moves DuPage, Will counties back to ‘high’ level of COVID-19 transmission

By Suzanne Baker

May 29, 2022 at 8:28 a.m.

Naperville moved back into a "high" community level of COVID-19 this week just as the...

The Illinois Veterans' Home in LaSalle on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (Zbigniew Bzdak/baiduhai)

Column: Gov. Pritzker owns the botched care veterans got at state home

By Charles Selle

May 27, 2022 at 10:43 a.m.

While Illinoisans mark Memorial Day, the administration of Gov. J.B. Pritzker has failed to fully...

Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, on Feb. 22, 2022.

Cook among 15 counties to move into ‘high’ COVID-19 level Thursday evening: officials

By Maria Paula Mijares Torres

May 27, 2022 at 10:21 a.m.

Chicago moved into a "high" community level of COVID-19 Thursday evening, officials said, as the...