Lake County Reopens With COVID-19 Restrictions
"There's been a couple hiccups where I double booked, but it's just growing pains."
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"There's been a couple hiccups where I double booked, but it's just growing pains."
"It definitely did not get taken care of in an hour. I know that for a fact."
Torrential rains and flooding left the River City complex without power or water on Monday, forcing the evacuation off all 449 units, several residents told CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli.
Last week, the city announced it was teaming up with Penn's disaster relief charity, CORE, and biotech firm Curative-Korva to create six new testing sites in Chicago.
Malls are opening back up in northwest Indiana, but shoppers are seeing some big changes upon their return.
Harold's Chicken on Broadway created quite a stir over the weekend, with one item on its receipt: what the restaurant called a COVID-9 surcharge of 26 percent.
Reopen small, reopen safely, and reopen, soone,r rather than later. That's the growing sentiment among many Illinois business owners.
As streets became rivers, after Sunday's deluge, Brookfield and Lyons fire department crews traded vehicles for boats.
Chicago Fire Department officials said they responded to a call of an explosion at the General Iron Industries scrap metal recycling plant at 1909 N. Kingsbury around 9:10 a.m., but could not immediately confirm what had happened.
Sgt. Khalil Muhammad shot Ricardo Hayes, then 18, in the arm and chest in the Morgan Park neighborhood on Aug. 13, 2017. City attorneys said Hayes functions at the cognitive level of a first-grader.
"Certainly there were some churches that congregated in excess of the allowable number, and we will be taking action as to those individuals and those churches," Lightfoot said at an unrelated event Monday morning.
Since the start of the pandemic, Illinois has had 96,485 cases in 100 counties, although many of those have since recovered. The state has had 4,234 COVID-19 deaths so far.
As more businesses began to reopen in Lake County on Monday, officials there report 2,866 cases of COVID-19 and 140 deaths. The number of fatalities remained unchanged since Friday.
The mayor has delayed plans to demolish a turbine building at the old Crawford power plant, but said it "must come down" due to the danger it poses.
Jill Schlesinger, certified financial planner and CBS News business analyst, looks at how to devise a game plan for paying bills when money is tight.
