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WATCH: Vaccines impact may not be felt until spring, medical experts say The impact of vaccinations may not have a positive impact on the daily COVID-19 numbers until spring, Dr. Jen Ashton says. The test positivity rate is a metric the state began providing in late October. It is calculated by using the total number of positive tests over the total number of tests. This is the metric being used to by state health officials to make decisions about mitigations. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker gav...

Town of Normal A union-backed development group is moving forward with a $9 million affordable senior housing project that would use the old TB Sanatorium in Normal. The Laborers Home Development Corporation has done a lot of senior housing and affordable family housing. The goal is to provide jobs for Laborers International union workers in the Midwest region. Laborers Home Corporation representative Tim Ryan said McLean County government approached the firm about the idea. "We rehabbed a hi...

Emily Bollinger / WGLT The McLean County Health Department confirmed 50 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, as the county’s testing positivity rate dropped to its lowest level in more than a week. The new cases were found in a batch of about 1,100 test results returned overnight. The county’s seven-day testing positivity rate is now 8.8%. The number of hospitalizations continues to break records. There are now 40 McLean County residents hospitalized with COVID-19, up one from the day befor...

WATCH: Gov. JB Pritzkers COVID-19 update on Wednesday, Jan 6 Governor JB Pritzker announces that Illinois is lowering tha age to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Phase 1B of the states distribution plan. The total number of cases in Illinois now stands at 999,288, with a total of 17,096 deaths, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though the CDC has recommended that people 75 and older be vaccinated next, Illinois is expanding that group to people 65 and older. "While the highest count of COVID-1...

Staff / WGLT The McLean County Health Department is reporting three more COVID-19 related deaths. They include a woman in her 80s who lived in a long-term care facility, as well as two men—one in his 50s and one in his 80s—who did not. This brings the county’s death toll to 116 since the start of the pandemic. About 60% of those people were long-term care facility residents. All but eight were older adults between the ages of 60 and over 100. Meanwhile, the county’s testing positivity...

* No recent progress… The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported 7,569 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including 139 additional deaths. - Bond County: 1 male 70s - Boone County: 1 male 40s - Bureau County: 1 female 80s - Champaign County: 1 male 70s - Clark County: 1 male 90s - Clinton County: 1 female 70s - Coles County: 1 female 80s - Cook County: 2 males 40s, 1 female 50s, 2 males 50s, 1 female 60s, 7 males 60s, 4 females ...

McLean Co. leaders address illegal dumping issue McLean Co. leaders address illegal dumping issue By Makayla Neukam | January 3, 2021 at 3:01 PM CST - Updated January 7 at 10:16 PM MCLEAN CO., Ky (WFIE) - McLean County leaders say illegal dumping of trash and other items is a rising issue in the county. According to the McLean County Judge-Executive’s Office, they say they will be focusing efforts on increasing both awareness and enforcement of local ordinances regarding littering. If yo...

Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported 61,987 specimens for a total 13,436,652. As of Friday night, 3,799 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 783 patients were in the ICU and 458 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators. The preliminary seven-day statewide test positivity from Dec. 26 - Jan. 1 is 9.6%. The test positivity rate is a metric the state began providing in late October. It is calculated by using the total number of positiv...

See where COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered The deaths reported Friday include: - Adams County: 1 male 60s - Cass County: 1 female 70s - Coles County: 1 male 70s, 1 female 80s - Cook County: 2 males 40s, 1 female 50s, 3 males 50s, 2 female 60s, 11 males 60s, 3 females 70s, 12 males 70s, 11 females 80s, 7 males 80s, 3 females 90s, 3 males 90s - DeKalb County: 1 male 70s - DuPage County: 1 male 40s, 1 male 60s, 4 males 70s, 3 females 80s, 4 males 80s, 1 female 90s, 1 male 90s - Frankl...

Reply The most deaths in a single day since the pandemic began was four on Nov. 12 and Nov. 19. (Shutterstock) NORTHBROOK, IL — Like every other municipality in Illinois, the Village of Northbrook has been dealing with its own unique data points regarding the coronavirus. According to the Cook County Medical Examiner, 96 people have died due to COVID-19 in Northbrook since March 29. That marks four new deaths since Patchs last report on Dec. 24. For further comparison, there were seven new de...