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Good Thursday morning, Illinois. And congratulations to
Lori Lightfoot who celebrates her two-year anniversary as Chicago mayor today with wild headlines.
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Republicans aren’t the only bracing for a big shift in the congressional remap. Democrats are wondering how redistricting might accommodate an additional Latino seat in Congress.
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Happy Monday, Illinois. We re at the two-week countdown mark for state lawmakers to wrap up the budget and hundreds of other bills. Word of the week: busy.
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Tension is building in Springfield as state lawmakers zero in on how to redraw congressional and state legislative districts. And when we say “lawmakers,” we mean Democrats. Republicans have so far been iced out of the room where it’s all happening though there might be a reveal sometime this week.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. With the state of Illinois officially in the Bridge Phase of Restore Illinois and marching towards a full reopening by mid-June, the Illinois Department of Public Health on Monday announced a couple of statistics on the proper trajectory for a full reopening.
For one, the 24-hour new case count for the entire state was 946. This marked the first time since Jul. 21 the state had a case count under 1,000.
Six people died.
Two, with the 32,253 vaccine doses administered between Sunday and Monday, 64% of all Illinois adults have now received at least one shot.
A total of 1,512 people as of Sunday night were hospitalized with the virus. 398 of those patients were in intensive care, and 220 were on ventilators.