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  • Alex Nitkin
    APR 13, 2020
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    Family of 1st person to die in Cook County Jail sues over hospital restraint policy, as Dart announces second coronavirus death

    A second person being held at Cook County Jail has died from the coronavirus, as the family of the first detainee who succumbed to the illness filed a lawsuit targeting the jail’s policy of shackling sick detainees.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    APR 10, 2020
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    County medical examiner opens ‘surge center’ to handle growing wave of coronavirus deaths

    The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office began operating Thursday morning out of a 66,000-square-foot refrigerated warehouse designed to handle the growing number of those who die from the coronavirus, officials announced.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    APR 10, 2020
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    Rear-door boarding on CTA opens the door to better bus service post-coronavirus, advocates say

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    Transit advocates have spent years urging city leaders to let bus passengers board through rear doors, saying the policy would help speed up service and ease crowding. Amid the backdrop of a global pandemic, officials appeared to fulfill their wish on Thursday.
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  • Alex Nitkin
    APR 10, 2020
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    Dart must step up efforts to fight coronavirus inside county jail, judge rules

    A federal judge on Thursday ordered Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart to accelerate testing, improve cleaning and implement better social distancing measures to slow the rapid spread of coronavirus inside Cook County Jail.

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  • Heather Cherone
    APR 09, 2020
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    City, schools, CTA set to get $1.6B in federal funds to fight coronavirus pandemic

    Chicago officials are counting on at least $1.6 billion in federal aid to reach the city, the Chicago Transit Authority and the Chicago Public Schools in the coming weeks to fight the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Thursday.

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  • Heather Cherone
    APR 09, 2020
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    Lightfoot orders booze sales to stop at 9 p.m. as part of crackdown on stay-at-home scofflaws

    Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered all liquor stores to close at 9 p.m. starting Thursday, cracking down on booze sales to stop large gatherings outside the stores that she said could spread the coronavirus.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    APR 08, 2020
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    County launches zero-interest suburban loan program to fill ‘gaps’ in city, state business relief efforts

    Cook County will roll out a zero-interest loan program targeted at suburban small businesses and gig workers to supplement a similar fund already operating in the city, county leaders announced on Tuesday.

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  • Heather Cherone
    APR 08, 2020
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    Undocumented immigrants won’t be left behind in city relief efforts, Lightfoot vows

    Mayor Lori Lightfoot signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to reassure undocumented immigrants living in Chicago that they will not be left behind as the city works to ease the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

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  • Heather Cherone
    APR 08, 2020
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    83K Chicagoans applied for housing assistance grants: officials

    Approximately 83,000 Chicagoans who lost their jobs or found their paychecks scaled back because of the coronavirus pandemic applied for $1,000 grants to help them pay their rent or mortgages.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    APR 07, 2020
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    Calls for release of prisoners during pandemic grow louder as 1st Cook County Jail detainee dies, 2nd death at Stateville

    As the number of deaths from coronavirus in Illinois surpassed 300 on Monday — including the first reported death of a person held at Cook County Jail — those calling for the release of incarcerated people are growing impatient with the speed at which prisoners, detainees and incarcerated youth are being evaluated for release.

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  • Heather Cherone
    APR 07, 2020
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    ‘Those numbers take your breath away’: Lightfoot sounds ‘red alarm’ about toll of coronavirus on Black Chicagoans

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    "We see a tiny pinprick of light at the end of the tunnel," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday.  [Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago]

    Sounding a “public health red alarm,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot Monday vowed to put the full force of the city government behind efforts to reduce the “devastating” toll of the coronavirus on Black Chicagoans.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    APR 07, 2020
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    Primary turnout surpasses 2018, Cardenas ekes out victory as final results are certified

    Voters cast their ballots at the Loop Super Site, 191 N. Clark St. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]

    Almost 30 percent fewer Chicagoans showed up to the polls last month than they did during the 2016 primary, but the coronavirus pandemic did not stop voters from breaking records last month.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    APR 06, 2020
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    La Spata wins write-in race for 1st Ward Democratic committeperson

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    Daniel La Spata, Jay Ramirez and Lauren Young [Submitted]

    Ald. Daniel La Spata (1) declared victory Saturday in his write-in campaign for Democratic Committeeperson in his Northwest Side ward, despite being knocked off the primary ballot.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    APR 06, 2020
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    Kaegi starting over on countywide tax assessments, adjusting for pandemic’s impact on property values

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    Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi. [A.D. Quig/The Daily Line]

    Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi is restarting the clock on this year’s round of property valuations.

    Kaegi will send new assessment notices to property owners in the nine townships that already got mailers from his office this year, he told The Daily Line on Friday. The revised assessments will take into effect the toll that the coronavirus pandemic has already taken on the region’s real estate market.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    APR 03, 2020
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    County leaders to offer ‘technical assistance’ for businesses seeking pandemic relief

    Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Thursday announced an outreach campaign designed to help business owners and contractors apply for a piece of the $2 trillion federal relief package.

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