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“Once again it’s dollars and cents over people. The pandemic does not go away just because you want it to,” said Bridgett White, a parent of two CPS students and a... #chicago #COVID19 #education

A coalition of community groups, public health advocates and parents of Chicago Public School students accused Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker of caving to political pressure to lift the mandates — and putting Black and Brown lives in danger in the process.

Among the requests, the Chicago activists want the city to require proof of vaccination for all indoor activities, like dining and shopping.

Despite the growing death toll among US children, which directly coincides with the reopening of schools, masking and other mitigation policies are being curtailed or entirely scrapped.

More than a third of all US child deaths from COVID-19 have taken place in the past three months, directly coinciding with the mass surge in cases among children due to the reopening of schools.

Some cautiously optimistic, others fearing the worst, parents are preparing for the return Monday of full in-person learning at Chicago’s schools.

Provided When the coronavirus first hit Chicago and Cook County last spring, Black residents bore the brunt of the surging death toll. But over the past year, as Cook County deaths have climbed toward 10,000, the virus has wreaked havoc in nearly every corner of the region. Low-income communities of all ethnicities have been hit especially hard, from the heavily Hispanic neighborhoods around Cicero to majority-white areas like Niles and Oak Lawn. Early pandemic hot spots like South Shore have b...

Essential manufacturing and factory workers in Chicago, including those in the food and beverage industry, are continuing to contract COVID-19 at staggering rates, according to a report from Block Club Chicago. Among them are employees at well-known tortilla company El Milagro Tortilla Factory in Little Village, where more than 80 workers tested positive for the novel coronavirus as of September 30. The factory temporarily closed in April after a longtime employee died from complications of the...