Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what’s happening Friday with COVID-19 in the Chicago area Chicago Tribune staff, Chicago Tribune © Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS Gerald Lewis, 82, gets a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Triton College in River Grove on Feb. 4, 2021. The Illinois National Guard helped Cook County set up a mass vaccination site and expect to do about 600 vaccines a day.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s decision to use $281.5 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to cover police payroll costs during the pandemic drew a rebuke Thursday from activists and aldermen, who said the money could have instead provided badly needed housing, health care and business lifelines.
Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here s what s happening Thursday with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
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Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here s what s happening Thursday with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
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Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what’s happening this weekend with COVID-19 in the Chicago area Chicago Tribune staff, Chicago Tribune © Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS Gerald Lewis, 82, gets a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Triton College in River Grove on Feb. 4, 2021. The Illinois National Guard helped Cook County set up a mass vaccination site and expect to do about 600 vaccines a day.
The Chicago area, plagued with overloaded registration systems and vaccine shortages, has among the lower vaccination rates in Illinois.
Health officials hope to improve the situation soon, but say they can only do so if they get enough vaccine and vaccinators to expand into much larger operations. They also say the number of people needing vaccines in the cities and suburbs would dwarf the capabilities of rural counties.