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Vaccine Equity Manager Hired by Will County's Health Department Patch 5/6/2021 John Ferak © Image via Will County Health Department Joliet resident Vinita Voss is a graduate of Joliet West high school, as well as Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She has a Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University Law School. JOLIET, IL — A native of Joliet who was most recently employed as a health equity manager for the Spanish Community Center in Joliet has been hired to fill the newly created job of vaccine equity manager at the Will County Health Department. One of the biggest ...

Orland Officials Call On Pritzker To Restore Municipal Funding Patch 3 hrs ago Yasmeen Sheikah © Yasmeen Sheikah/Patch The resolution asks lawmakers to restore the plan to its original 10 percent that was agreed to "over 50 years ago." ORLAND PARK, IL — Orland Park is lobbying Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois General Assembly not to pass proposed legislation to further cut municipalities' portion of the Local Government Distributive Fund (LGDF). The village board is speaking out against the action, voting 7-0 Monday on a resolution to completely restore the LGDF to w...

CHP Releases Details In Temecula I-15 SigAlert Crash Patch 2 hrs ago © Renee Schiavone/Patch The crash remains under investigation by the CHP. TEMECULA, CA — A five-vehicle SigAlert crash Sunday on Interstate 15 in Temecula caused injuries and involved impaired driving, the California Highway Patrol announced Monday. It's not immediately clear how the crash reported at 5:15 p.m. began on the northbound side of the freeway, just south of Temecula Parkway. However, two of the vehicles involved — a 2016 Dodge Dart and a 2014 Chevy Impala — caught fire. A 57-year-old woman in the Impa...

Sen. Emil Jones Reacts To Guilty Verdict In Derek Chauvin Case Patch 4 hrs ago Yasmeen Sheikah © Lauren Ramsby/Patch The verdict — which took about 10 hours to reach —was read Tuesday afternoon. DISTRICT 14 — State Senator Emil Jones III (D-Chicago) provided commentary to the public, following the guilty verdict read Tuesday to Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Chauvin was charged in the death of Floyd, a Black man who died after Chauvin kneeled on him for more than nine minutes, despite Floyd's protests that he could not breathe. Floyd's ...

RI Dept. Of Health Awarded $1.4M To Study COVID-19 Variants Patch 6 hrs ago Rachel Nunes © Rachel Nunes/Patch The department estimates that more than half of the new cases of coronavirus in the state are a "variant of concern." PROVIDENCE, RI — As more transmissible, dangerous variants of COVID-19 become more prevalent in Rhode Island, the state's Department of Health was awarded $1.4 million in federal funding to expand genome testing and mutation identification efforts. The funding came from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention as part of the American Rescu...