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Biden signs $1.9 trillion stimulus bill into law

By Derek Draplin | The Center Square (The Center Square) – President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that includes extended unemployment benefits, direct funding...

One year into pandemic, Pritzker ‘cautiously optimistic’ about large-scale events

SPRINGFIELD – One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday announced a new initiative focusing...

Illinois’ U.S. senators praise passage of $1.9 trillion relief package

By Dan McCaleb | The Center Square (The Center Square) – Illinois' two U.S. senators, Majority Whip Dick Durbin and...

State tops 3 million vaccines administered; Pritzker announces awareness campaign

SPRINGFIELD – More than 3 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered statewide as of Friday, and Gov....

U of I SHIELD test available statewide after FDA approval

(The Center Square) – The SHIELD COVID-19 test, which has been used on University of Illinois campuses since last...

19.6% Illinoisans tested to date for COVID-19 are positive headed into May

Illinois Department of Public Health officials announced 2,563 new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing case totals for the state to 52,918 cases since the...

Menards issues COVID-19 mask requirement to Customers ahead of May 1st

BRADLEY - Governor Pritzker’s revised stay-at-home order begins on Friday.   While the order states wearing masks in public is not optional when in an enclosed group...

Illinois eclipses 50,000 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday

Illinois Department of Public Health announced on Wednesday the State had eclipsed 50,000 total COVID-19 cases across the state.  Of those, 2,253 have been...

Illinois State Rep. files 2nd Lawsuit against Stay-at-Home ‘including everyone’

A second lawsuit has been filed against Governor Pritzker’s  stay-at-home order, this time by Republican State Representative for the 68th District, John Cabello. The...

COVID-19 RNA found in air droplets

Scientists have discovered RNA from COVID-19 in air droplets. First reported in the journal Nature, sixteen scientists say genetic markers of the virus smaller than...

Cubs, Sox could play in same division under ‘pandemic realignment’ proposal

Major League Baseball officials are ‘cautiously optimistic’ baseball could start by late June, or no later than July 2nd. That according to USA Today’s Bob...
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