18,165 People In Illinois Are Stuck Waiting Out Penalty Weeks Before Getting Unemployment Benefits
Workers lose jobs when businesses can't keep their doors open, and the Illinois unemployment system is having a hard time keeping up with claims.
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Workers lose jobs when businesses can't keep their doors open, and the Illinois unemployment system is having a hard time keeping up with claims.
"Your kids and your teenagers can get this, and they can get it very seriously."
Chances are you've canceled a vacation, or crossed a concert off the calendar, all in the name of COVID-19.
A man was shot and critically wounded Monday afternoon in the Albany Park neighborhood.
"I will develop and identify community policing savants to push, pull, and if necessary to drag the police department to a community policing-oriented culture that yields outcomes that make us all safer," Brown said.
"Our case numbers and our hospitalizations are still rising, even if that rise is slower now. Our curve is bending the right way," Pritzker said.
"This crisis has also doubled-down our longer mission to fight poverty, end racial inequality, and ensure every Chicagoan has access to a bright future we all deserve."
CBS 2 is committed to doing this through investigative and enterprise reporting by exposing issues in systems that are supposed to protect the public.
"What the newsletter said was call me office. We're here to help. To let you know where the nearest food pantry can be found and let you know how to apply for unemployment."
Medical students from across the Chicago area are getting donations of essential supplies to doctors fighting COVID-19.
Gov. JB Pritzker has said Illinois is competing with other states, the federal government, and even foreign countries for PPE in the fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic; while also trying to avoid being scammed by those selling bogus supplies.
It's going to be a sunny day, but rain in on the way.
A 47-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday night while driving on the Bishop Ford Freeway.
