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Posts tagged Illinois COVID-19
Illinois unemployment rate jumps to 7.6%
Leisure and hospitality lead job losses as U.S. jobless rate remains steady at 6.7%
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Chicago dining Saturday, Phase 1B Monday
Pritzker admits ‘frustrating’ shortage of vaccines, blames Trump, lauds Biden
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COVID-19 tiers of relief
State hospital hiring initiative alters metrics, allows more regions to ease restrictions
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Three regions leave Tier 3, ease COVID bans
Northwest, southern Illinois join Quad Cities, Bloomington-Normal in reopening museums, allowing low-risk sports, group fitness
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Pritzker: 'We need more vaccines'
Guv looks ahead to next phase of inoculations and easing mitigations after receiving assurances from President-elect Biden
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Pritzker drops next-phase vaccine age limit to 65
Decision driven by concerns over racial equity; regional tier mitigations could be downgraded Jan. 15
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Ill. leads U.S. with 100K COVID vaccinations
Pritzker praises process on Pfizer shot, awaits reinforcements from Moderna vaccine
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New COVID cases dropping, but not enough
State tops 15K deaths, but Pritzker says cases, hospitalizations ‘seem to be heading in the right direction’
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Governor gets out the knife
Pritzker plots $700M in executive cuts, blames GOP for lost tax revenue, seeks federal COVID relief
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First COVID vaccines delivered
Pritzker oversees arrival, declares ‘beginning of the end of this pandemic’
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Vax or mask: Cover up until you sleeve up
COVID vaccine goes to health-care workers first, while everyone else needs to observe 3 W’s
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Job advocates call for ambitious COVID relief
Coalition of workforce, community groups seeks cash stimulus, unemployment extension, expansion of food stamps
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Pritzker lays out COVID vaccine plan
Health-care workers, long-term-care residents to get shots first, with focus on 50 counties with top death rates
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Pritzker seeks COVID relief for restaurants, bars
Durbin cheers progress on Senate floor, but rails against corporate-immunity provision
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COVID relief is not a shell game
It’s absurd to use stimulus funding to simply pay off debts, for states as well as individual taxpayers
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Guv guards against 'post-Thanksgiving surge'
Pritzker says Tier 3 COVID mitigations to remain in effect at least to mid-December
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COVID economic collapse felt across state
Illinois leads national increase in newly filed claims for unemployment
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Don't be a COVID turkey this Thanksgiving
Pritzker, Ezike make final pleas to stay home as guv lays out plans for fiscal stopgap
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Halt the panic to slow the pandemic
Small businesses and workers need economic security first to make rational decisions about COVID-19
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COVID-19 pandemic's bitter tiers
Illinois moves to Tier 3 mitigations in effort to turn back latest wave of coronavirus
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