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How are vaccine providers ensuring the right people get shots?Jan 19, 2021 5:47 AM - If you can't prove you're eligible for COVID-19 innoculation, some suburban vaccination sites will send you packing, but others are more lenient. "We are not going to turn people away," a Cook County health official said.
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The bills that failed during the legislature's short sessionJan 18, 2021 3:40 PM - State lawmakers ran out of time last week on several consequential measures -- including bills that would have expanded vote-by-mail, allowed lawmakers to conduct business remotely during the pandemic and eliminated newly expanded income tax deductions for business owners.
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Thousands of Illinois drivers would get their licenses back under a criminal justice reform bill
Jan 18, 2021 9:04 AM - If Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs the measure that lawmakers passed this week, motorists will no longer lose their licenses for unpaid red-light and speed camera tickets.
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Police: St. Louis man found dead in western Illinois
Jan 18, 2021 8:38 AM - The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis is investigating the death of a St. Louis man whose body was found across the Mississippi River in Illinois' rural St. Clair County
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Portion of state cleared for indoor dining, but suburbs must waitJan 17, 2021 7:13 PM - State health authorities cleared the way Sunday for limited indoor dining in some portions of Illinois, but restaurant owners and patrons in the suburbs will have to wait a little longer before eating in with official consent.
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Schakowsky will ask House to censure downstate representative over Hitler remarksJan 17, 2021 12:03 PM - U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky said she plans to introduce a measure in the U.S. House to censure downstate Rep. Mary Miller for comments she made about Adolf Hitler outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 5.
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East St. Louis cleanup highlights environmental racism issue
Jan 17, 2021 7:00 AM - EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - Some residents are concerned that toxic chemicals may be polluting their air. Black people make up half the confirmed COVID-19 cases in St. Clair County but are only about 30% of the population. And citizens of East St. Louis have to travel out of the city for hospital care. As JD Dixon drives along State Street and sees piles of trash, he thinks about how all of these issues are connected to systemic racism.
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COVID-19 cases per county, ZIP code as of Jan. 15Jan 16, 2021 6:21 PM - There have been 451,049 COVID-19 cases in the suburbs as of Friday. That's 42.6% of the state's total, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. There have been 7,521 deaths in the suburbs, which is 41.7% of all COVID-19 deaths in Illinois.
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Liddell, No. 21 Ohio St power past No. 14 Illinois 87-81
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State reports 130 more deaths, 5,343 virus more cases SaturdayJan 16, 2021 1:24 PM - The Illinois Department of Public Health Saturday reported 5,343 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus disease and 130 additional deaths.
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