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Stuart Nissenbaum, 28, stands outside his home on March 26 in Long Grove. He was tested for COVID-19 on March 18 and said he has not received results.

Some Chicagoans report lengthy delays on coronavirus test results: More than a week later, ‘I still have nothing’

March 27, 2020 at 7:38 a.m.

After spiking a fever and suffering an intense cough, Stuart Nissenbaum said he was tested for the coronavirus at a local drive-thru screening site on March 18. Yet over a...

Two people walk past each other in the 5300 block of North Clark Street on March 24, 2020, in Chicago. Social distancing is strongly encouraged as a preventive measure against COVID-19.

Chicago scores an ‘A’ in social distancing, according to a GPS analysis project, but expert says: ‘I need Chicago at an A+. Maybe an A++’

March 25, 2020 at 5:30 p.m.

Chicagoans were ordered to stay at home starting last weekend and, according to a company grading social distancing, the city's getting an A. Both Cook County and the state of...

Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, listens to a question related to COVID-19 during a news briefing at the Thompson Center on March 17 in Chicago.

Do Illinois hospitals have enough beds? Yes for now, but coronavirus threat has officials eyeing more space

March 23, 2020 at 7:33 p.m.

As the number of coronavirus infections continued to climb Monday, hospitals and state officials said they are hustling to free up as many hospital beds as possible in anticipation of...

People walk outside Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park in August 2019, as the hospital prepares to close.

Hospital officials: Illinois should consider reopening shuttered facilities to help care for COVID-19 patients

March 20, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.

Illinois' hospital administrators are recommending that Gov. J.B. Pritzker consider reopening at least three recently shuttered hospitals to ease the strain on Illinois' medical system as the number of COVID-19...

Drive-up coronavirus tests coming to big-box stores, including Northlake Walmart

March 19, 2020 at 5:49 p.m.

Drive-thru coronavirus testing will be coming soon to a Walmart parking lot in west suburban Northlake, according to city officials, as efforts grow to expand testing to major retail sites...

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...

Chris Henao casts his ballot while wearing a mask amid coronavirus concerns at an early voting site in the Loop on March 16, 2020.

An Illinois primary like no other: Low turnout, poll worker shortage expected amid coronavirus

March 16, 2020 at 11:15 p.m.

Illinoisans readied for a primary Election Day like no other Tuesday, with fear of the spread of coronavirus raising concerns of low turnout and too few poll workers as government...

An election judge stacks wristbands for voters at a polling site in Chicago on Election Day, April 2, 2019.

Chicago-area election judges dropping out, polling places closing amid coronavirus fears

March 14, 2020 at 4:52 p.m.

City and suburban election officials are scrambling to find new election judges and polling places after they opted out of Tuesday's election amid fears about the spread of the new...

A graphic shows where the proposed mixed-use development of Lincoln Yards will be established on Chicago's North Side.

Aldermen relied on a study to approve $1.3 billion for Sterling Bay’s Lincoln Yards. Turns out that Sterling Bay hired the consultant who wrote it.

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

Key to the massive $1.3 billion taxpayer subsidy for Sterling Bay's Lincoln Yards megadevelopment was a 36-page report declaring that the project met the requirements to get the money. As...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi at the City Club of Chicago on Jan. 21, 2020.

Assessor Fritz Kaegi to critics: Some real estate investors are playing politics for financial gain

June 14, 2024 at 6:40 p.m.

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi on Tuesday pushed back at critics in the development community, suggesting they are playing politics to maintain an old, error-laden system of property taxation that...

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