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Another 200,000 Illinoisans file for unemployment claims

Thursday, April 9, 2020

More than half a million Illinois workers have filed first-time unemployment claims in the four weeks since the COVID-19 outbreak first hit the labor market.

Rural hospitals brace for downstate surge of COVID-19

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Although the COVID-19 outbreak in Illinois so far has been mainly concentrated around the Chicago area, public health officials are bracing for a surge of cases in rural areas of downstate Illinois, including areas that already have shortages of hospital beds, health care providers and equipment.

Illinois ‘scouring the globe’ for protective equipment, Pritzker says, as COVID-19 deaths eclipse 300 in Illinois

Monday, April 6, 2020

Gov. JB Pritzker said Monday that state officials are “scouring the globe” for personal protective equipment, or PPE, as it prepares for the COVID-19 outbreak to peak in Illinois over...

Illinois borrows to infuse hospitals with cash in March

Monday, April 6, 2020

The Illinois comptroller’s office borrowed $105 million from various funds in March, in large part so it could make bigger-than-normal payments to hospitals as they brace for the peak of the...

Unemployment continues to soar amid COVID-19 outbreak

Thursday, April 2, 2020

First-time unemployment claims skyrocketed again in Illinois and throughout the nation in the last week of March as businesses closed their doors or scaled back operations in the face of the...

Pritzker, Lightfoot announce new fund to support artists during COVID-19 shutdown

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the formation of a new relief fund to support artists and performers who have been temporarily put out of work by the COVID-19 pandemic...

Illinois records first infant death as COVID-19 cases continue to rise

Saturday, March 28, 2020

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Saturday it has confirmed 13 new deaths from the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, including an infant in Cook County who had tested positive.

State, national unemployment spikes amid COVID-19 outbreak

Thursday, March 26, 2020

More than 114,000 Illinoisans filed first-time unemployment claims last week. Nationally, more than 3 million people reported losing their jobs, the biggest one-week surge on record.

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Another 200,000 Illinoisans file for unemployment claims

Rural hospitals brace for downstate surge of COVID-19