The city of Chicago plans to rent thousands of hotel rooms and reopen a recently-shuttered hospital to house quarantined COVID-19 patients, officials announced Monday.
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Illinois will launch a task force aimed at bolstering the state’s supply of personal protective equipment, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Monday.
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Illinois hospitals across the state are implementing a near-total ban on visitors as COVID-19 cases tick up. Several of the new restrictions follow Gov. JB Pritzker’s stay-at-home order, which started Saturday.
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Both of Illinois’ U.S. senators voted Sunday against a new coronavirus pandemic relief bill, arguing that it did not go far enough to help healthcare workers or families who have been laid off during the crisis.
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The state is releasing nearly $1 million to critical access pharmacies, Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza announced Friday.
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Gov. JB Pritzker called on recently retired and former healthcare workers this weekend to return to the field and help alleviate the stress on the industry caused by the new coronavirus pandemic.
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Gov. JB Pritzker has ordered all Illinoisans to shelter in place until April to mitigate the spread of the new coronavirus.
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Community health centers are on the “frontlines” of the healthcare fight against COVID-19, according to Illinois Primary Health Care Association CEO Jordan Powell.
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Chicago’s public schools will remain closed until mid-April, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Thursday evening.
Illinois hospitals, nursing homes and other providers are calling on construction companies, dentists, veterinarian offices and other groups to donate face masks to help restock their dwindling supply of protective equipment as new cases of COVID-19 continue to mount across the state.
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Three more people in Illinois have died from the new coronavirus, bringing the state’s total to four, officials announced Thursday.
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Three more people in Illinois have died from the new coronavirus, bringing the state’s total to four, officials announced Thursday.
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The entire Illinois congressional delegation has asked the Small Business Administration to support the state’s effort for an economic injury declaration amid the new coronavirus pandemic.
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Both Illinois senators signed off Wednesday on a bipartisan plan targeted at the spreading new coronavirus.
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Planned Parenthood of Illinois will temporarily consolidate all of its services to six health centers due to the new coronavirus pandemic.
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Oak Park will require all residents to shelter in place for at least two weeks, the first Illinois municipality to do so in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19.
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