BLOOMINGTON As CEO of Reditus Laboratories, the Pekin-based testing site for COVID-19, Aaron Rossi is an expert on everything regarding testing of the coronavirus.
So when he began feeling sick with some sniffles and sneezing a few days ago, he knew what to do. I tested myself, the practicing physician said. I was negative, but in today s world, when you start feeling anything, you worry about COVID, because that is the environment we live in.
That test was among the 1.25 million the company has done since March when the coronavirus arrived in central Illinois.
The start of Reditus dates to June 2019, well before anyone knew anything about COVID-19, when Rossi, and his father, Larry, opened a histology lab for podiatrists. Histology is the study of the microscopic structure of tissues.
Here s how a Pekin lab has processed more than 1.25 million COVID tests since March
Kevin Barlow
BLOOMINGTON As CEO of Reditus Laboratories, the Pekin-based testing site for COVID-19, Aaron Rossi is an expert on everything testing of the coronavirus.
So when he began feeling sick with some sniffles and sneezing a few days ago, he knew what to do. I tested myself, the practicing physician said. I was negative, but in today s world, when you start feeling anything, you worry about COVID, because that is the environment we live in.
That test was among the 1.25 million the company has done since March when the coronavirus arrived in central Illinois.
A year ago this past Thursday, married theater artists Katie and Bryan Banville celebrated a major arrival with the birth of their first child, daughter Juniper Eleanor. Twelve weeks later, they marked another arrival, though this one was not as welcomed.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down all of San Diego’s theaters on March 12, the University Heights couple have gone from having chock-full 2020 calendars of creative work to spending virtually 24 hours a day of the past nine months quarantining at home with their daughter. While they’re grateful that their day jobs have kept them afloat financially this year, losing their creative outlet and the physical connections they enjoy with their theater colleagues has been depressing and isolating.
A former Bloomington college student who faced decades in prison for dealing drugs on campus will have to wait for the public records of his offenses to be sealed, a judge ruled on Friday.
Tanner Tattini was a freshman at Illinois Wesleyan University in 2015 when he was charged with dealing drugs near a school. The 19-year-old student was arrested after he sold cocaine to an undercover officer near the Illinois State University campus.
Joshua Rinker, defense lawyer for Tanner Tattini, asked a judge to approve a request to seal the public records related to Tattini’s case.
Rinker argued that Tattini, now 24, has done everything required of him to qualify for closing the records to public view. The closure is intended to provide ex-offenders a path to employment and other opportunities frequently blocked when information about convictions is easily available, said Rinker.
Sylvie Rosenthal, Lelia Byron, Jason Reblando & Joanne Diaz
Dec 19, 2020 12:00 PM to
5:00 PM
November 13, 2020
courtesy the artists
An image from La Ruta: Walter Benjaminâs Last Passage, by Jason Reblando and Joanne Diaz.
The spiffy new space across from The Sylvee that is the new Arts + Literature Laboratory is kind of perfect for pandemic viewing: The big windows and clear sightlines means the public can see the exhibits while remaining outdoors (though the galleries are open noon-5 pm Thursday through Saturday, or by appointment; those going inside must mask up).
La Ruta: Walter Benjamin s Last Passage is one of three shows there currently; on Friday, photographer and artist Jason Reblando and poet Joanne Diaz will discuss their collaboration on