Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
The Loretto Hospital, a 122-bed medical facility in the Austin neighborhood, will administer Chicago’s ceremonial first COVID-19 vaccination Tuesday, sources told the Tribune.
Residents of suburban Cook County will likely receive vaccines in a variety of places in the coming months, including from their own doctors and in parking lots and churches, county health leaders said Monday.
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Presidential electors coast to coast are casting the votes that will choose Joe Biden as the nation’s next president.
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This week CTU tweeted, “The push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism, and misogyny.” With that single sentence, CTU blew a gaping hole in its own credibility.
My friends and acquaintances who are creating new traditions during the pandemic said they plan to continue the practices in a post-coronavirus world.
This week, the first Americans will roll up their sleeves and receive a vaccine to protect them against the coronavirus. It’s a stunning scientific achievement, led by the work of a married couple in Germany, researchers Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, the children of Turkish immigrants.
Trust must be earned, and Black people have reason to be distrustful, Dahleen Glanton writes.
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- Residents of suburban Cook County will likely receive vaccines in a variety of places in the coming months, including from their own doctors and in parking lots and churches, county health leaders said Monday.
- Zoom fatigue? Nope, according to a Pew survey: Most Americans who are working from home would prefer to keep doing so, even after the pandemic.
- Washington has pulled out of the Pac-12 football championship game because of COVID-19 issues in the Huskies program, and Oregon will play No. 13 USC for the conference title on Friday instead.
- Presidential electors coast to coast are casting the votes that will choose Joe Biden as the nation’s next president.
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