Four Illinois counties have reached a "warning level" for coronavirus, the Illinois Department of Public Health said Friday. Adams, LaSalle, Peoria and Randolph counties were all named by the department for reaching "two or more COVID-19 risk indicators." According to IDPH the concerning numbers coming out of the four counties is due in large part…
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois reached another one-day high in testing, as it surpassed 38,000 COVID-19 tests conducted in the last 24 hours.Illinois' confirmed coronavirus cases increased by 954 , including 20 deaths, on Sunday. There's now a total of 153,916 COVID-19 cases and 7,187 deaths statewide.Within the last 24 hours, Illinois performed 38,894 tests, bringing…
State officials announced Wednesday there had been 77 additional fatalities related to COVID-19 confirmed, for a statewide death toll of 6,095. Officials also reported 625 new known cases, pushing the statewide total to 129,837. Earlier Wednesday, Cook County officials confirmed that the death of a 9-month-old who died in March was caused in part by…
Officials with the Illinois Department of Public Health have confirmed that two batches of mosquitoes have tested positive for West Nile virus, the first positive tests of the summer. According to authorities, workers with the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito Abatement District collected a positive batch of the insects on May 31 in River Forest, and…
CHICAGO (WLS) -- With more than a million people unemployed in Illinois, here's a job you can do to be a real asset to your community and you don't need any prior experience. It's COVID-19 contact tracing, and by making a few calls, you could save lives and get paid.The city of Chicago is expected…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill into law that requires restaurant chains to declare major food allergens on their menus. The requirement goes into effect in 2026 and covers restaurants with 20 or more locations. The menus will have to disclose ingredients including milk, eggs, shellfish and tree nuts when the restaurant operators
3 min read IT'S NOT GETTING any warmer here in the Northeast, but that's to be expected. What we didn't expect, though, was one of our all-time favorite outfitters, Huckberry, to mark down a bunch of its best-selling jackets just in time for the changing of the leaves. We just covered Huckberry's larger fall sale