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Illinois Coronavirus Updates: Phase 5 Possible in July, Auto Show Returns, Chicago Travel Order © Bloomberg via Getty Images A pedestrian looks into a reopened restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. The state of Illinois is on track to enter Phase 5 of its reopening plan - which would mark a full reopening with no capacity limits - in July, officials say. NBC 5 Responds: FEMA Program Aims to Help Pay for Funerals of COVID-19 Victims Replay Video UP NEXT Meanwhile, Chicago updated its emergency travel order Tuesday, putting neighboring Indiana on the list requir...

Published May 4, 2021 • Updated 2 hours ago The state of Illinois is on track to enter Phase 5 of its reopening plan - which would mark a full reopening with no capacity limits - in July, officials say. Meanwhile, Chicago updated its emergency travel order Tuesday, putting neighboring Indiana on the list requiring travelers to quarantine or test negative for COVID-19 prior to their arrival in the city. Don't miss local breaking news and weather! Download our mobile app for iOS or Android — and sign up for alerts. And a suburban Chicago family who lost their fully vaccinated father t...

Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Mayur Kakade / Getty On April 15, Gargi Shindé, a 43-year-old nonprofit executive, logged onto Zoom at 5 a.m. From her home in Charlotte, North Carolina, she watched her relatives huddle around a bright-yellow body bag at a crematorium in Pune, India. They were performing the final rites for Shindé’s aunt, Vijaya, who had just died from COVID-19. All she could do was watch. The bag was almost fully zipped, revealing only Vijaya’s face, which appeared tiny and blurry through Shindé’s phone. “The only contribution I had was writing an obituary,” she told...

The Atlantic As American adults line up for shots, children are becoming disproportionately represented among the unvaccinated. April 21, 2021 Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. As of this week, people ages 16 and older are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in all U.S. states. But as adults and older teens reclaim a bit of normalcy, children could be left out. That means parents are entering a weird limbo. “In their strange w...

The Atlantic The Danger of a ‘Dudes Only’ Vaccine We still don’t know who’s most at risk of getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine blood clots. Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Johnson & Johnson shot is teetering on the precipice of becoming America’s “dudes only” vaccine. On Tuesday, the CDC and FDA advised halting the vaccine’s nationwide rollout to investigate six cases of a rare blood-clotting disorder that’s occurred in people within about two weeks of receiving the vaccine—all of them women under the age of 50. In an emergency meeting convened Wednesday by the CDC, exp...