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Photo: Saga Communications Lawmakers examining how the state is responding to the pandemic are giving mixed reviews. Cara Bader, chief of staff of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, runs down some of the numbers of the Business Interruption Grant (BIG) program for a Senate committee: “Forty percent of awards went to businesses owned by people of color, and more than eighty percent of awards went to the very smallest of businesses: those with revenues of less than $1 million a year. Owing to both unique impacts and prolonged effects of the pandemic, nearly half of...

To correct a number, 524,050 COVID-19 vaccine doses were sent to long-term care facilities. COVID-19 vaccinations at long-term care facilities lag behind the rest of Illinois with just 17.3% of doses going into arms under a federal program, compared with 53.5% for health care workers getting inoculated through state and local efforts. As of Thursday, Illinois has received 1,425,075 doses of the desperately needed COVID-19 virus vaccine. Of those, 901,025 doses were channeled through state and local agencies and 481,637 shots were given to health care workers, Illinois Department of Public Hea...