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New one-day high for COVID-19 deaths: 192
Pritzker targets nursing homes for tests, PPE, renews threats to stay-at-home scofflaws
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Almost 30k COVID-19 tests yield new one-day high for cases
Guv urges General Assembly to reconvene, pass state relief package
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Slower rise means later peak on COVID-19
Although some may find that ‘disheartening,’ Pritzker insists state seems headed to next recovery phase at end of May
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Mild weekend for COVID-19 cases
Reduced testing still yields positive rate of 12 percent, but will it hold this week?
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State tops 20k COVID-19 tests in a day
‘We definitely have hit a peak in deaths,’ says Dr. Ezike, with another 130 bringing toll to 3,241
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J.B. to idled gig workers: File claims now
Governor says traditional claim must be denied before new relief is granted; COVID-19 deaths, cases level out
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Hispanics lead Chicago COVID-19 cases
‘The Latino community is the Illinois community,’ says Pritzker, citing alarmingly high rate of positive tests
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New one-day high for COVID-19 deaths
Pritzker, Ezike stress ‘invisible enemy,’ lay out regions, phases, requirements to ‘Restore Illinois’
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Guv credits stay-home order for drop in deaths, hospitalizations
But Pritzker warns, ‘We’re not through this yet’ on COVID-19 pandemic
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Poll shows Illinoisans back Pritzker
More than three-quarters of state voters support stay-at-home order; new record set for daily testing
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New single-day high for COVID-19 cases
Governor lays out plans for contact tracing, insists protesters won’t dictate end of stay-at-home order
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Pritzker, Ezike push expanded testing as key
141 new COVID-19 deaths reported, near one-day high; guv brushes aside new church lawsuit against stay-at-home order
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Guv dismisses new suit as COVID cases top 50k
Pritzker, Ezike turn attention to nursing homes, small businesses, urge observance of stay-at-home order
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Pritzker rips rep. as state marks worst day for COVID-19 deaths
Guv blasts ‘cheap political stunt’; 144 deaths push state toll past 2,000
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Pritzker stresses COVID-19 danger across state
Guv blasts Rep. Bailey suit against stay-home order, says new court ruling ‘has put the people of Illinois at risk’
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McCormick Place scaled back as state nears 2,000 COVID-19 deaths
Daily testing remains well above 10,000
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State blows past Pritzker goal of 10k tests
16,124 tests yield new single-day high of 2,724 COVID-19 cases, but percent positive actually drops
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State tops 2,000 new COVID-19 cases, but also nears 10,000 tests a day
New deaths drop back below 100, but toll passes 1,500
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Pritzker to Illinoisans: 'You have saved thousands of lives'
Hospitalization rates hold steady as 59 new deaths reported
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Nursing homes spur COVID-19 deaths
State toll drops to 33 Sunday after tying single-day high of 125
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