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Covid 19 Pandemic

Former Loretto executive pleads not guilty in COVID testing fraud case

  • Aug 31
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4 takeaways from Fauci's journals ahead of his Senate testimony

  • Jul 29

Judge questions USAO as charges are dropped in hospital fraud case

  • Jun 12

Local woman fights unemployment fraud accusations over COVID payments

  • May 15

College in south suburbs closing after over 60 years

  • Nov 5, 2025

Illinois health department recommends COVID vaccines for all adults

  • Sep 24, 2025

IL health leaders to create state COVID vaccine policy amid confusion

  • Sep 8, 2025

Another COVID-19 variant is rising abroad

  • May 29, 2025

Latest Videos

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Struggles of long COVID 3 years after WHO declared virus a pandemic

  • Mar 11, 2023
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Pritzker ends COVID pandemic disaster status

  • Feb 1, 2023
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As COVID emergency ends, uninsured to be most impacted

  • Feb 1, 2023
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Senior living community rooms closed for pandemic create isolation, residents say

  • Dec 8, 2022
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Another round of COVID relief being offered to Chicago families

  • Nov 22, 2022
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LaSalle Veterans' Home reports 65 new 'mild' COVID cases

  • Oct 25, 2022
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Doctors clarify Biden's remarks that 'pandemic is over'

  • Sep 19, 2022
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Coronavirus update: WHO says 'the end' of pandemic 'is in sight'

  • Sep 15, 2022

Latest Stories

New contagious COVID-19 variant now circulating in CA, health experts warn: Here's what to know

Scientists at Stanford have detected a new COVID variant that experts say is already evident in wastewater samples in California, even as access to vaccines is restricted.

  • May 28, 2025
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COVID by the numbers: 5 years after WHO declared the disease a global pandemic

It's been five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic.

  • Mar 11, 2025

5 years since suburban hospital announced treatment of 1st COVID patient in Illinois

Friday marked five years since a suburban hospital announced it was treating the first confirmed COVID-19 patient in Illinois. At the time, it was only the second COVID case in the United States.

  • Jan 24, 2025

Former Illinois Department of Public Health director fined $150K for ethics violation

Illinois' former top doctor has been fined by the state ethics commission after becoming CEO of Sinai Chicago within a year of leaving IDPH.

  • Jan 11, 2025

House COVID-19 panel releases final report criticizing public health response to the pandemic

In the 520-page report, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic concludes that the coronavirus "most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China."

  • Dec 3, 2024