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Illinois Working on Plans for COVID Vaccine Lottery to Encourage Shots, Pritzker Says © Bloomberg via Getty Images A healthcare worker receives a band-aid after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at McLeod Health Clarendon Hospitals in Manning, South Carolina, U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. The first Covid-19 vaccine shots were administered by U.S. hospitals Monday, the initial step in a historic drive to immunize millions of people as deaths exceed the 300,000 mark. Photograph...

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Glowering in public and near-silent for two days, President Donald Trump relented under pressure on Monday by tersely recognizing Sen. John McCain’s “service to our country” and re-lowering the White House flag. While much of the nation remembered McCain’s record as a war hero, longtime senator and presidential nominee over the weekend, Trump had nursed his grievances. McCain had been... California Aug 9, 2018 Hard-line conservative Republicans in the House recently hit...

Parts of southern and eastern Illinois could see severe weather on Thursday afternoon, and the National Weather Service issued several tornado warnings for portions of the state. One of the warnings included portions of Macoupin and Madison counties, and while the warning has expired, eyewitness Rick Sparling did spot a funnel cloud just south of Bunker Hill, located to the…

“People were just breaking into stores and walking in, loading their cars up,” said state Rep. LaShawn Ford as he stood among the rubble at the Washington Square Mall.  The Chicago shopping center at the corner of North Avenue and Cicero was struck by looters on Sunday. “People did the looting because it was easy,” Ford said as he... Attorney Oct 25, 2019

Chicago Oct 6, 2017 A court hearing could keep a former disgraced Chicago priest confined indefinitely. A lawsuit filed Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court seeks more than $50 million in damages from convicted child molester and defrocked priest Daniel McCormack and the Archdiocese of Chicago. Chicago Sep 8, 2017

*Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) is catching heat from local journalists over her decision to grant one-on-one media interviews only to people of color to cover her two-year anniversary in office. Mary Ann Ahern, who is white and a political reporter for NBC 5 Chicago, tweeted about the move on Tuesday. “Absolutely, they told me only Black and brown journalists are getting one-on-one interviews,” she told The Hill. Lightfoot confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that she is “exclusively...

Chicago Mayor Sparks Backlash for Limiting Interviews to Minorities Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot drew pushback from local media this week after her office refused to let non-minority reporters interview the Democrat one-on-one. Mary Ann Ahern, a political reporter for NBC5, said a spokeswoman informed her that Lightfoot would only speak to black or brown journalists. Paris Schultz with WTTW said he was told the same thing. Lightfoot later took to Twitter to defend the new policy. “I ran to br...

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A long list of popular events will be returning to Chicago this summer as the city continues to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, bringing back beloved concerts from Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Printer’s Row Lit Fest, Broadway in Chicago and more, in addition to launching a new city music festival.