Here’s what else went on in Chicago and around the state. News Ashlee Rezin Garcia /Chicago Sun-Times Illinois set a record for a second straight day Wednesday with 55,865 people receiving COVID-19 vaccinations statewide, public health officials reported Thursday. That tops the 53,628 shots that were doled out Tuesday, as vaccine administration ramps up this week entering Phase 1B of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s distribution plan. A total of 829,428 shots have gone into arms statewide in the six weeks since the federal government shipped out the first doses six weeks ago — but only 178,684 Illinoisans have received the required two doses. That’s just 1.4% of the population.