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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 the next two weeks. Pritzker outlined those efforts during his daily coronavirus briefing in Chicago as the Illinois Department of Public Health announced 1,006 new confirmed cases of the disease over the previous 24 hours and 33 additional deaths. All of those new deaths were in Cook County and the surrounding collar counties of Lake, DeK...
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois officials announced on Tuesday the largest single-day increase of novel coronavirus-caused deaths in the state. The 73 new fatalities in 14 counties — Champaign, Christian, Cook, DuPage, Ford, Kane, Kankakee, Lake, Madison, McHenry, Monroe, Tazewell, Will and Winnebago — bring Illinois’ total to 380. Coles, Lawrence, Richland and Shelby counties each reported their first confirmed cases of the virus Tuesday. Coroners and medical examiners across the state may be conducting post-mortem tests to properl...
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday he has “given up” on an adequate coronavirus response from the federal government and announced an expansion of emergency child care during his daily COVID-19 briefing Sunday in Chicago. At the same briefing, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Illinois Department of Public Health director, announced 899 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 along with 31 more deaths. That brings the total to 11,256 confirmed cases and 274 deaths from the virus in 71 of Illinois’ 102 counties. Boone, Calhoun and Gallati...
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois on Saturday became the 10th U.S. state to top 10,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as the state’s public health department announced its largest one-day increase in cases. On Saturday there were 10,357 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, a spike of 1,453 since Friday. There were 33 more deaths reported Saturday, bringing the total to 243. And 68 of Illinois’ 102 counties now have reported cases, while the vast majority of cases and deaths have been in Cook County. “The number is sobering and reminds...
SPRINGFIELD – COVID-19 has now claimed 210 lives in Illinois as officials reported 53 more deaths and 1,209 new confirmed cases Friday during a news conference at a Chicago convention center that will house patients with the virus in the coming weeks. The McCormick Place convention center can now treat 500 non-intensive care COVID-19 patients in rooms measuring 10 square feet, with the plan of eventually growing it to a capacity of 3,000 by the end of April. The first phase also included 14 nursing stations and support r...
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday announced a public service initiative to mobilize the state’s “strongest weapon” against the spread of novel coronavirus — Illinoisans. Pritzker said his administration has “nearly exhausted every avenue available” to mitigate COVID-19’s expansion. It instituted a stay-at-home order, banned dining in at restaurants and bars, limited public gatherings and shuttered schools. Now, the governor is asking Illinoisans not only to stay at home, but to celebrate it. “All In Illinois” is a...
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Wednesday 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. The Arts for Illinois Relief Fund will provide financial assistance in the form of grants to artists, artisans and cultural organizations that have been impacted by the virus. The fund is a partnership between the city of Chicago, the state of Illinois and several charitable foundations. Pritzker highlighted...
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois officials on Sunday announced the largest one-day jump in confirmed novel coronavirus cases and deaths in the state yet. But public and private labs’ per-day testing ability is also higher than it has ever been. The Department of Public Health identified 1,105 new cases and 18 deaths, putting the state totals at 4,596 cases in 47 counties and 65 related deaths. Gov. JB Pritzker said “we have weeks to go” before Illinois reaches a peak in new COVID-19 cases, expected “sometime in April.” One of his prio...
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. IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said during a daily media briefing in Chicago with Gov. JB Pritzker that a full investigation is under way to determine the cause of death. If COVID-19 is confirmed to be the cause, it would mark the first infant death from the disease in Illinois. Ezike said it is rare for an infant to die of the...
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker announced new measures benefiting the homeless and people on supplemental nutrition programs Friday and continued to pressure the federal government for further, centralized action in response to COVID-19. At the same daily briefing in Chicago, Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike announced 488 new confirmed cases of the virus and eight more related deaths in Illinois. Pritzker said the state is also working on collecting numbers of hospitalizations caused by C...
Gov. JB Pritzker announced a number of financial initiatives Wednesday to assist owners of bars, restaurants, hotels and other small businesses during the economic slowdown caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic. By Friday, he said, owners of businesses with fewer than 50 employees and less than $3 million in 2019 revenue can qualify for a piece of $90 million in state emergency assistance through three new programs. Pritzker additionally is pushing Illinois’ tax filing deadline from April 15 to July 15 to match the f...
SPRINGFIELD – New federal and charitable funding will soon be available to Illinoisans affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as the state on Thursday saw its largest one-day spike of new cases and deaths during the pandemic. President Donald Trump approved Illinois’ disaster declaration on Thursday, allowing the state to access emergency funding to expand health care services like increasing hospital and housing capacity and expanding telehealth services. In his 18th consecutive daily briefing on the pandemic, Gov. JB Pri...
HCS Family Services has been closed for almost a week, but that doesn’t mean families aren’t receiving the groceries they need. An employee who had worked closely with a number of volunteers and other staff went home with flu symptoms March 19, Stan Cook, executive director, said Tuesday. “We told everybody at that time to wrap up what they were doing and go home,” Cook said. “That was the trigger that caused the difficult decision to close down.” Staff members will spend at least 14 days working from home, with the office sc...
Combining a run with a bike ride was the perfect way to get out of the house Sunday morning. Joy Holmes and her daughter, Ellison, did just that as they head up Madison Street....
Hinsdale's Chuck Goudie, an investigative reporter at ABC 7 Eyewitness News, is used to broadcasting from wherever the news takes him. He covered the days following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks from Ground Zero in New York. He's reported from war zones in the Middle East and from behind the walls of the Vatican. These day's he's reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic, broadcasting from the library of his Hinsdale home. "There is one big difference, though, between this...
Community Consolidated District 181 At their virtual Monday meeting, board members • thanked Superintendent Hector Garcia, principals, teachers, support staff and all district employees for their efforts while schools have been closed and students have been engaged in e-learning. “We have never embarked on this journey before and I just wanted to thank the administration on behalf of the board and the community for jumping in head first and really problem solving and working through all the potential complications, pit...
Trinity Sober Living can have nine residents at a time living in its sober house at 111 N. Grant St. while legal battles with the village continue, a DuPage County Circuit Court judge ruled March 17. “(A)s one resident moves out, a replacement resident may move in, up to a maximum of nine at any one time,” the order from Judge Brian Diamond read. The order was a clarification of a preliminary injunction Diamond issued Feb. 7, stating only those individuals who resided at the property could remain there, and no new res...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, March 26 Hinsdale Central High School, 55th and Grant streets https://www.d86.hinsdale86.org On the agenda: construction bids, staffing for 2020-21 school year, agreement with The Community House for social work and therapy services, new instructional materials Note: Residents are encouraged to stay home and watch the livestream of the meeting at the website listed above. To submit public comment, fill out the Google Form at https://forms.gle/sSeKxUC1BD96tWcf8 by 6...
Residents are welcome to enjoy Hinsdale parks during the stay-at-home order from Gov. JB Pritzker, but the playground equipment is off limits through at least April 7. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
A Westmont man has been arrested on felony charges for breaking into and stealing items from Hinsdale homes — including a Jeep Wrangler — on March 21, according to Hinsdale police. Dustin Petty, 48, of Westmont has been charged with two counts of residential burglary (Class 1 felony), one count of possession of a stolen motor vehicle (Class 2 felony) and one count of identity theft (Class 3 felony). Judge Brian Telander set bond March 23 in the amount of $100,000, with 10 percent to apply. DuPage County State’s Attorney Rober...
Hinsdale Rotary this week answered calls for help in the fight against the impact of COVID-19 with monetary donations to support those in need. Hinsdale Rotary President Tom Norton said the organization gave $5,500 Monday in response to an urgent request from the Hinsdale Hospital Foundation for the purchase of a new portable patient monitor to serve the increasing patient load at Amita Adventist Hinsdale Hospital. Then on Tuesday, Hinsdale Rotary cut a $3,000 check to enable People’s Resource Center in Westmont to buy a f...
Interested in ordering a bottle of wine or six-pack of beer with your carryout order from a Hinsdale restaurant? You can, thanks to action Village President Tom Cauley took last week. The sale of beer and wine in original sealed containers will be allowed until April 17 or the expiration of Gov. JB Pritzker’s ban of on-site dining, whichever is sooner. The sale must be in conjunction with a food purchase. The move was prompted by a call that assistant village manager Brad Bloom received from a Hinsdale restaurant manager a...
Lucy and Vivian Kapcar, who live across the street from the medical center at 40 S. Clay St., used e-learning art time last week to create posters to thank the medical workers, many of whom are neighbors, community members and friends. Thanks to mom Carissa for sending this photo in. If you have a photo showing how your or your friends or neighbors are coping these days, email it to [email protected]....
Welcome spring?! - The past week saw the changing of the seasons - well, sort of. The couple of inches of snow that fell Sunday gave the first flowers of the season a white coating that virtually disappeared by Monday afternoon. The upcoming week's forecast looks a little like spring weather is around the corner, with highs in the 50s. To see The Hinsdalean covers children across the village created, please turn to Page 40....
Sheltering in place doesn't mean the sidewalks and streets are off limits to man's (and woman's) best friend. Fitzie and Ivy met up with a new friend, Dash, as they led their dog walkers down Seventh Street Saturday. The dog walkers, aka their best friends, were Jackie and Chris Stent and Sarah and Eddie Opler. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
