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Workers at 11 Chicago-area nursing homes on Thursday gave notice that they plan to strike in 10 days over staffing and wages.

Nursing home operators worry that if they order staff to get shots, some will quit and work elsewhere, so they would prefer having a standard for everyone to follow.

City View Multicare Center, in Cicero, suffered a heavy toll earlier in the pandemic, with 249 infections among residents and workers, and 15 deaths, according to state records.

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Provided When the coronavirus first hit Chicago and Cook County last spring, Black residents bore the brunt of the surging death toll. But over the past year, as Cook County deaths have climbed toward 10,000, the virus has wreaked havoc in nearly every corner of the region. Low-income communities of all ethnicities have been hit especially hard, from the heavily Hispanic neighborhoods around Cicero to majority-white areas like Niles and Oak Lawn. Early pandemic hot spots like South Shore have been surpassed by communities like Cicero, where two low-rated nursing homes and a profusion of multi...