BELLEVILLE – Illinois American Water and the American Water Charitable Foundation are donating a portion of over $58,000 to COVID-19 relief funds to organizations across the area. “Now more than ever, we must all come together to help our frontline workers and those providing resources
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health has announced 111 new deaths in Illinois, and 2,325 new confirmed cases. Public Health officials say the deaths range from a man in his 20s to two women in their 100s. 95 of the deaths were in the Chicagoland area, the overwhelming
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OTTAWA – Nine new coronavirus cases and one more death were confirmed Saturday by the LaSalle County Health Department. According to the health department, the 9 cases range from a woman in her 30’s to a man in his 90’s. All nine are in isolation, and that makes 102 total
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CHICAGO – This is the first weekend since March that Governor J.B. Pritzker will not give his daily briefing on Illinois’s response to Covid-19. Pritzker said on Thursday that the streak of daily briefings will end on Friday, May 8th. Friday was Pritzker’s 61st
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SPRINGFIELD – Two prominent universities have different scenarios for the Covid-19 pandemic in Illinois. The University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics, which was speculated to have been used by the White House in March to justify lockdowns, predicts that Illinois has passed
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MARSEILLES- A long term care facility in Marseilles has had an outbreak of COVID-19 that the Illinois Department of Public Health has said resulted in 40 infections and one COVID-19 related death. Aperion Care has approximately 100 beds, but the current number of residents living there was not
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DEKALB – The DeKalb County Health Department reported 8 additional COVID-19 cases on Friday. Since the pandemic began, a total of 169 positive individuals have been found with one death. As of May 1st, 49 residents are considered recovered.
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health Friday announced 2,887 new cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 130 additional deaths. Currently, the IDPH is reporting a total of 73,760 cases, including 3,241 deaths, in 98 counties in Illinois. The age of cases ranges from younger
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PONTIAC – As of Friday, the Livingston County Health Department is reporting so far since the pandemic began, they have had 474 COVID-19 test results. Of that, 24 COVID-19 tests have been confirmed positive, 450 tests confirmed negative, 22 of the previously reported confirmed cases have been
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OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department announced Friday two COVID-19 related deaths in LaSalle County. A woman in her 40’s, and a woman in her 60’s, had earlier tested positive for COVID-19. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the additional loss of two of our LaSalle
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