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Morry Gash/AP Photo As Illinois prepares to receive its first shipment of coronavirus vaccine from the federal government this week, a group of community activists on Sunday called on Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot to “correct big mistakes” in their vaccine distribution plans. They say those plans must be made more equitable for communities of color disproportionately impacted by the virus. A group of activists that included Alds. Jeanette Taylor (20th) and Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) asked Pritzker and Lightfoot to expand outreach and work to build trust with Black and Brown communities. Earlier this month, Pritzker laid out the state’s distribution plan for the first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine. Illinois expects to receive 109,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine from the federal government by Dec. 19. About 23,000 of those vaccines, or 21%, will be sent to Chicago, with the remaining expected to go to the 50 counties suffering the highest per capita coronavirus

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