OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department Friday confirmed two women have tested positive for COVID-19. The women, one in her 30’s and the other in her 60’s are in isolation. Since the pandemic began there have been 177 cases. 116 people previously diagnosed with the
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DEKALB- Two more residents of a DeKalb long term care facility hard hit by a novel coronavirus outbreak have died The DeKalb County Health Department reported Friday that two additional residents from Pine Acres have died, men in their 80’s and 90’s, from complications of COVID-19. The
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health Friday announced 595 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease in Illinois, including 77 additional confirmed deaths. Of the reported deaths, 10 were from outside Chicagoland. Since the pandemic began there have been 131,198 cases,
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WHEELING, Ill. (AP) — Two workers were critically injured when scaffolding they were on gave way inside a water tower in suburban Chicago. The Daily Herald reports that crews were sandblasting and painting the inside of the water tower in Wheeling when the scaffolding fell around 9 a.m. Friday.
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SHERIDAN – For the first time since early April, the Sheridan Correctional Facility reports no active COVID-19 cases among inmates or staff. Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 8 staff and 18 inmates had come down with the novel coronavirus. During the outbreak, the Illinois
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OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department confirmed Thursday an additional four COVID-19 cases, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 175 cases. The additional cases were found in three men and a woman, ages ranging from their teens to their 50’s. The health department
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OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College announced they will be spending over $165,000 on internet technology upgrades after a spring semester marred by a compromised computer hack that disabled the systems at the school in April. The IVCC board approved an “Information
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By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Surgeons in Chicago have given a new set of lungs to a young woman with severe lung damage from the coronavirus. Northwestern Medicine announced the procedure on Thursday. Only a few other COVID-19 survivors, in China and Europe, have received lung
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NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A 77-year-old man and a 71-year-old woman have died after they were struck by a pickup truck while crossing a street in suburban Chicago. Naperville police say the 64-year-old driver of a Toyota Tundra turned left late Wednesday afternoon onto a street where the victims
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By KATHLEEN FOODY and DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago officials say more than a dozen police officers and supervisors were captured on video “lounging” inside a burglarized congressional campaign office on the city’s South Side as people vandalized and stole
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