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  • Alex Nitkin
    APR 14, 2020
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    City expands shelter beds, opens “isolation facility” for homeless COVID-19 patients 

    City leaders stepped up their efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus among homeless populations by opening a 100-bed “isolation facility with wraparound services” for indigent patients, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Monday. 

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  • Heather Cherone
    APR 13, 2020
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    City Council set to meet virtually Wednesday to set rules for coronavirus era 

    The Chicago City Council will meet for the first time in nearly two months on Wednesday, but the Council Chambers will be empty. 

    Instead, aldermen will meet virtually via videoconference to adopt new rules to permit the City Council to meet with no aldermen present. The City Council had been scheuled to meet March 18, before Gov. JB Pritzker ordered that gatherings of more than 10 people be banned. 

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  • Alex Nitkin
    APR 13, 2020
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    Lightfoot halts demolitions citywide after “unacceptable” implosion blankets Little Village in dust

    Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered a citywide moratorium on demolition permits while the Chicago Department of Buildings conducts a “top-to-bottom city review” of how its permitting policy may have led to a coal plant demolition that blanketed the Little Village neighborhood in a cloud of dust on Saturday.

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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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