Sources: Photo Shows McCormick Place Transformed With Hospital Setup
Hospital beds, enclosures, and curtains have been set up at McCormick Place as the city prepares it as an alternative care center during the coronavirus epidemic, sources said.
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Hospital beds, enclosures, and curtains have been set up at McCormick Place as the city prepares it as an alternative care center during the coronavirus epidemic, sources said.
CPD Deputy Chief of Patrol Ernest Cato III, Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman, and former Dallas Police Chief David Brown are the three nominees to permanently replace former Supt. Eddie Johnson.
"I deal with gunshots every day and trauma and crazy stuff. And this is the only thing that scares me."
The Chicago Police Department on Wednesday reported that the number of coronavirus cases within its officers and staff have risen to 64.
Hundreds of inmates at the Cook County Jail were fighting Wednesday to be released while they await trial amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The federal Paycheck Protection Program offers loans and will forgive them if all employees are kept on the payroll for eight weeks and the money is used for payroll, rent, mortgage interest, or utilities.
A state-run home in Kankakee has 12 cases of COVID-19, and for those who work at the facility, concern over how the place is being run is making them nervous.
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The Illinois Attorney General's Office is investigating more than 900 price-gouging complaints from people across the state who accused businesses of hiking their prices during the coronavirus pandemic.
"If you are an individual who is asymptomatic you don't suspect you are ill with any respiratory illness or coronavirus, you don't need to wear a mask."
The City of Chicago announced assistance grants for rents and mortgages. A total of 2,000 of them available at $1,000 each.
As hospitals in Illinois geared up at the start of the coronavirus outbreak to treat infected patients, it quickly became evident the growing need for care outweighed available resources.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting the Census count, and officials already have pushed back the response deadline by two weeks to Aug. 14.
The state now has a total of 6,890 confirmed cases of the virus, and 141 deaths in 56 counties.
