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Illinois reports 106 COVID-19 deaths Tuesday

December 29, 2020

By RAYMON TRONCOSO Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – Illinois reported its third consecutive day with more than 100 COVID-19 deaths Tuesday. Meanwhile, most statistics the… Login to continue reading Login…

Illinois COVID-19 death toll hits 16,000

December 29, 2020

By RAYMON TRONCOSO Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – While the number of new COVID-19 cases and people hospitalized in Illinois continue to decline, the… Login to continue reading Login…

Gov. JB Pritzker discusses the state's COVID-19 vaccination program during a virtual news conference Wednesday. (Photo credits: blueroomstream.com)

Illinois leading the nation in COVID-19 vaccinations

December 24, 2020

By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – More than 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Illinois since the first vaccine was… Login to continue reading Login…

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams was in Chicago Tuesday to tour local hospitals there as they administered vaccinations and to meet with the state’s public health director, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, as well as Chicago’s public health director, Dr. Alison Arwady, to get an update about the state’s vaccination program.

Surgeon general: Illinois numbers ‘moving in the right direction’

December 23, 2020

By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – The top public health official in the United States said Tuesday that the COVID-19 trends in… Login to continue reading Login…

Chemica Jones, 41, a certified nursing assistant, receives one of the first COVID-19 vaccines administered in Illinois during an event Tuesday at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria. (Credit: blueroomstream.com)

First health care workers vaccinated in Peoria

December 16, 2020

By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – Five health care workers at a hospital in Peoria became the first people in Illinois to receive… Login to continue reading Login…

State’s COVID-19 deaths surpass 14,000

December 11, 2020

By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – The COVID-19 death toll surpassed 14,000 on Friday as the Illinois Department of Public Health reported 190… Login to continue reading Login…

Bonnie Blue, a Chicago resident who took part in a clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine, speaks via videoconference during Gov. JB Pritzker's daily media briefing Tuesday to encourage everyone to take the vaccine once it becomes available. (Credit: Blueroomstream.com)

Pritzker touts promising vaccine data

December 9, 2020

By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – As COVID-19 infection rates continued to fall Tuesday, Gov. JB Pritzker said the first delivery of… Login to continue reading Login…

The graph shows the seven-day weekly average, from Monday to Sunday since the state first began reporting the numbers, of hospital bed usage by COVID-19 patients. The graphs will be updated by Capitol News Illinois every Monday. (Credit: Jerry Nowicki of Capitol News Illinois)

Pritzker says state ‘long way’ from exiting COVID-19 ‘danger zone’

December 8, 2020

By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – As infection rates and hospitalizations from COVID-19 continued to level off during the first week of… Login to continue reading Login…

Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday said getting COVID-19 vaccines distributed to Illinoisans "will not be a quick process." During his daily virus briefing in Chicago, Pritzker continued to urge state residents to practices safety protocols in the meantime. (Credit: blueroomstream.com)

With potential vaccine approval looming, Pritzker warns of long process

December 5, 2020

By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – Health officials gave an update on the state’s COVID-19 vaccine plan Friday with potential federal approval… Login to continue reading Login…

Celena Roldán, CEO of the American Red Cross of Chicago and northern Illinois, made an appeal Thursday in Chicago for state residents to donate blood to help support a health care system that has been stressed by the COVID-19 pandemic. She spoke during Gov. JB Pritzker’s daily COVID-19 briefing in Chicago. (Credit: blueroomstream.com)

As COVID-19 claims another 192, officials call for blood donations

December 4, 2020

By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – As the COVID-19 death toll continues to mount, Gov. JB Pritzker and an official from the American… Login to continue reading Login…