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An ambulance leaves the Chateau Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Willowbrook on March 17, 2020, where officials announced March 18 that those testing positive with COVID-19 had grown to 42 people.

Officials report 46 people from DuPage nursing home have tested positive for coronavirus as Illinois cases spike to 288

March 18, 2020 at 8:30 p.m.

Doreen Hall stood outside her mom's first-floor window on Wednesday morning to get in a short visit — even if it had to be outside the building. On Wednesday, officials...

6 cases of coronavirus tied to Chicago’s Lycée Francais school

March 18, 2020 at 5:29 p.m.

A private school in Chicago's Lincoln Square community has reported six cases of coronavirus, a cluster that might have stemmed from a fundraiser held earlier this month, according to information...

A retired nurse with history of respiratory issues is confirmed as state’s first coronavirus fatality. But relatives don’t know how she contracted it.

March 18, 2020 at 6:37 a.m.

When Patricia Frieson texted her brother last week that she was going to the hospital with difficultly breathing, she didn't seem overly worried. Frieson, a retired nurse, had struggled with...

Meghan Ryan casts her votes in the Center on Halsted in the 44th Ward on primary election day on March 17, 2020, in Chicago.

Despite coronavirus anxiety and problems at the polls, Cook County and Chicago avoid record-low turnout in primary election

March 17, 2020 at 11:02 p.m.

Chicago and suburban Cook County were headed to relatively low election turnouts Tuesday as a city elections spokesman and aides to Gov. J.B. Pritzker publicly voiced their differences over whether...

Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside Heartland Health Centers in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

South Side woman, ‘one of the sweetest people you ever want to meet,’ is Illinois’ first coronavirus fatality; 22 stricken at long-term care facility

March 17, 2020 at 11:13 p.m.

A Chicago woman in her 60s was the first Illinois resident to die from the new coronavirus, and the state's largest outbreak at a single location has taken hold at...

Students of Loyola University Chicago move out of Mertz Hall at the Lake Shore Campus in Chicago.

Deserted dorms, tuition complaints and virtual classes: Uncertainty looms as disappointed college students head home early because of the coronavirus

March 16, 2020 at 7:16 p.m.

Austin Pinderski lifted a mini-fridge and shoved it into the trunk of a Jeep while his older sister rearranged suitcases inside, as if playing a game of Tetris, to make...

Derek Dattner, 49, and his daughter, Katie, 18, in their home March 11, 2020, in Chicago. They don't know if they'll be refunded from a school trip to Europe that was canceled last week because of the coronavirus.

An insurer refuses to refund CPS students who paid thousands of dollars for canceled school trips abroad. CPS says it’s working on reimbursements.

March 12, 2020 at 5:09 p.m.

When Chicago Public Schools canceled all district-sponsored international travel for the upcoming spring break because of the threat of coronavirus, Derek Dattner assumed he would be refunded the $4,500 he...

Students walk the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus Jan. 31, 2020.

U. of C. and Loyola join Northwestern, Illinois State, U. of I. in moving classes online after spring break, DePaul makes changes in latest attempts to contain coronavirus

March 12, 2020 at 10:08 a.m.

Becoming the first Illinois colleges to drastically alter campus operations, the University of Illinois System, Northwestern University and Illinois State University all announced Wednesday that classes will be moved to...

Northwestern University sophomore Tracy Zhang, 19, had hoped to see her family in her native China during a school-sponsored trip to Shanghai over spring break, but it was canceled due to the coronavirus.

College life amid coronavirus fears: One student fled Italy to avoid the virus, only to find it in her Chicago-area hometown

March 5, 2020 at 2:17 p.m.

When classes at Northwestern University adjourn for spring break in a couple of weeks, Tracy Zhang will likely be stuck on campus, searching for ways to keep busy and entertained,...

Amid coronavirus fears, Northwestern University cancels popular Dance Marathon fundraiser, scraps all international spring break trips

March 4, 2020 at 6:39 p.m.

Hours after Northwestern University announced it was canceling international spring break trips due to concerns about the coronavirus, school officials nixed another major campus event scheduled for this weekend: a...

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