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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 sign announcing a face mask requirement is displayed at a hospital in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. COVID-19 hospital admissions are inching upward in the United States since early July 2023. It's a small-scale echo of the three previous summers. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

COVID-19 hospitalizations in the US are on the rise again, but not like before

By Associated Press

August 8, 2023 at 3:43 p.m.

Here we go again: COVID-19 hospital admissions have inched upward in the United States since...

COVID-19 cases are on a slight uptick in the Chicago area. Marnie Monogue, outside her Chicago home, Aug. 4, 2023, is one of the people who got COVID during the summer surge.

As summer winds down, COVID-19 cases tick up slightly in the Chicago area: ‘COVID did not go away’

By Ilana Arougheti

August 7, 2023 at 8:54 a.m.

When Marnie Monogue developed a tickle in her throat last week, COVID-19 was the last...

Sandra Leconte, third from left, receives the third-place plaque for the NAACP's Thalheimer Award from Leon Russell, the NAACP national board chair, as Karen Boykins-Townes, far right, the vice chair, and Teresa Haley, president of the Illinois NAACP Conference watch.
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NAACP’s Lake County branch honored; ‘The growth and the positive impact … has been wonderful to see’

By Steve Sadin

August 2, 2023 at 1:05 p.m.

Becoming president of the Lake County Branch of the NAACP on Feb. 5, 2020 —...

FILE - This undated, colorized electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, indicated in yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, indicated in blue/pink, cultured in a laboratory. The National Institutes of Health is opening a handful of studies to start testing possible treatments for long COVID, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition. The announcement, Monday, July 31, 2023 comes amid frustration from patients who've struggled for months or years with sometimes disabling health problems. (NIAID-RML via AP, File)

Brain fog and other long COVID symptoms affect millions. New treatment studies bring hope

By Associated Press

August 1, 2023 at 7:36 a.m.

The National Institutes of Health is beginning a handful of studies to test possible treatments...

Giancarlo Jusino Sánchez on West Van Buren Street in Chicago on July 13, 2023. He had a relatively mild case of COVID-19 but then suffered with long COVID.

Lingering long COVID looms even as Chicago hospital admissions decline, Northwestern research shows

By Jake Sheridan

July 14, 2023 at 10:02 a.m.

Chicago is seeing its lowest COVID-19 hospital admission rates for the entire pandemic. But it's...

Requirements to wear masks were part of the public health protocols during the coronavirus pandemic. No that the pandemic has been officially declared over, officials in Franklin Park say in June 2023 the village has done away with many restrictions but some procedures have been incorporated and remain, including paying village bills online.

Post-pandemic, Franklin Park plans to continue encouraging online payments, appointments for passport processing. Elmwood Park’s Fourth of July Parade returns as public gathering.

By Jessi Virtusio

June 30, 2023 at 7:26 p.m.

A little over three years after the doors to most businesses – nationwide – were...

Water rate hike approved in Aurora

By Steve Lord

June 30, 2023 at 1:42 p.m.

The Aurora City Council has approved a hike in the city's water and sewer rate....

More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large pandemic-relief initiatives, according to a new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs designed to help small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years.

More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen, federal watchdog says

By Associated Press

June 27, 2023 at 5:21 p.m.

More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives, according...

Aurora City Council to vote on water rate hike

By Steve Lord

June 25, 2023 at 10:14 a.m.

The Aurora City Council will vote Tuesday on a rate increase to bring more revenue...

Pre-loaded syringes with the COVID-19 vaccine are ready for use in New Orleans, on Jan. 25, 2022. Scientific advisers for the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, June 15, 2023, discussed whether the next round of shots should only include protection against the newest omicron strains that are now dominant worldwide.

FDA advisers endorse updating COVID vaccines to target latest omicron strain

By Associated Press

June 15, 2023 at 4:00 p.m.

The COVID-19 vaccines are on track for a big recipe change this fall. Today's vaccines...