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Good Wednesday morning, Illinois. Now President Donald Trump is turning on Mitch McConnell for calling Biden the president-elect, saying Too soon to give up. Is anyone surprised?
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State Rep. Kam Buckner is named head of the Illinois House Black Caucus. | Illinois Democratic Party file photo
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to rage Tuesday in Illinois as health-care workers in Chicago and Peoria began to receive the state s first doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
The vaccine apparently hasn’t arrived in Springfield yet, but officials at Memorial Medical Center and HSHS St. John’s Hospital were hopeful inoculations of their health care workers could begin later this week.
The Illinois Department of Public Health on Tuesday reported 117 additional COVID-19-related deaths and 7,359 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases.
The IDPH said Illinois has recorded a total of 863,477 positive cases, including 14,509 deaths.
It was unclear how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine – the first to receive federal approval – St. John’s would receive for its frontline workers this week.
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Happy Tuesday, Illinois. We re off to another historic day in another historic year.
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President-elect Joe Biden and VP-elect Kamala Harris’ 2020 victory was confirmed Monday, and valiant health care workers started receiving coronavirus vaccines. But the greatest drama in Illinois unfolded during a special legislative hearing to examine whether House Speaker
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Good Monday morning, Illinois. Democracy takes center stage today as members of the Electoral College make the decision final almost anyway.
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The Illinois House Democratic Women’s Caucus is looking within its ranks to determine the next speaker of the House.