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  • Members of the Cook County Democratic Party who supported candidates outside the party’s official slate during this year’s primary elections are set to be booted from the top tier of the organization’s leadership on Wednesday.

    Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle, who also serves as party chair, will announce the shake-up during the party’s annual convention Wednesday afternoon, she told The Daily Line on Tuesday.

  • Representatives of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart detailed new social distancing measures, a new “rapid test” for COVID-19 and a distribution regime for cleaning supplies in a legal brief submitted Monday to update a federal judge on efforts to fight the virus inside the Cook County Jail.

  • 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. 

  • Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson has opened an investigation into a partial factory demolition that blanketed nearby homes in a cloud of dust on Saturday and prompted two days of fury and finger-pointing from city officials, a spokesperson for the office confirmed on Monday.  

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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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    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.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.