Chicago and Cook County remain in the “high transmission” category for COVID-19 under Centers for Disease Control guidelines, as cases have increased, the Chicago Department of Public Health wrote in a notice on Friday. The average number of new laboratory-confirmed cases jumped to 247 on Friday from 217 the week prior, but the average number of daily new COVID-19 hospital admissions remained steady at 12.6 per 100,000 people.  

Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Iris Martinez on Friday announced the launch of a remote language service on her office’s website that offers 50 languages on a drop-down menu and an additional 150 languages upon request. The website offers a “Need Language Service” tab operated by the translation service InLingo that offers an instant-message chat service in the 50 languages.