Новости за 25.04.2020

Potbelly Corp. said Saturday it would return the $10 million it received from the federal Paycheck Protection Program, a decision that followed days of backlash for it and other publicly held companies that tapped into the funds designed to help small businesses weather coronavirus-related shutdowns.

Driver killed when Trans Am hits traffic signal pole near Beach Park

A teenage boy was wounded Saturday afternoon in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side, Chicago police said.

The Pritzker administration released for the first time details of the number of cases and deaths tied to long-term care facilities in Illinois. The data shows at least 189 long-term care facilities in 22 counties reporting at least one case. In all, at least 1,860 cases can be tied to these facilities, with 286 deaths as of April 19.

At least 19 downtown Chicago buildings will light up, beginning Saturday, in support of essential workers and first responders in the coronavirus health crisis.

The Kane County Health Department on Friday ordered a Smithfield meat processing plant in St. Charles to close due to “concerns about COVID-19.”

Chicago continues to flatten its coronavirus curve but is “not on the way back down yet” in terms of new COVID-19 cases among city residents, public health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said.

The world’s novel coronavirus has taken a terrible toll on the Tapiru family. A mom and son are dead, and a husband remains hospitalized.

An aldermen wants to buy protective masks directly from businessman and former mayoral candidate Willie Wilson to distribute to Chicago residents, days after Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she refused to purchase masks from Wilson because he wanted an upfront cash payment.

With protection against COVID-19 spurring demand, hobbyists have turned to making masks. That’s led to shortages of elastic and high demand for the services of people who repair old machines.

A male victim was fatally wounded early Saturday morning in the Washington Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Robbers in a moving truck attempted to steal ATM machine in the drive-thru of two separate banks on the Northwest Side, Chicago police said.

As more and more people make masks to guard against the spread of the coronavirus, mask making materials are running low. It has also had an impact on the sewing machine service industry.

At least three burglars were taken into custody Saturday morning after breaking into a car dealership in the Portage Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Chicago police broke up far more gatherings of people on the West Side than any other part of the city during the early days of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s stay-at-home order to curb the spread of COVID-19, according to official police statistics.

There's a broad problem facing Illinois as it battles COVID-19: inconsistencies and omissions in the data it is collecting on cases.

Chicago might be able to take a page from Seattle's playbook to keep more green spaces open — yet safe.

How Chicago residents are dealing with the stay-at-home order extension: Illinois enters this next phase of life under the virus as a truly bifurcated state, a population split into those who are fighting bankruptcy and those fighting boredom.

Illinois officials on Friday announced new records for both the number of cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed in a day and the number of tests conducted, surpassing for the first time Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s long-stated goal of 10,000 daily screenings for COVID-19.

Northwestern Medicine in Chicago is testing a drug used for arthritis to see if it can help treat an immune "storm" caused by COVID-19.

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Where’s the beef? Still on the farm. A bottleneck at slaughterhouses where workers fell ill with COVID-19 is sending ripples across the supply chain and could lead to higher prices of beef and pork in grocery stores.

Chicago summer music festival organizers talk about the challenges they face amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Virtual proms are virtually everywhere now that coronavirus has shuttered real life events.