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Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

A Hammond man arrested on a murder warrant — who this week escaped when a private driver who was extraditing him from Texas stopped at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Gary — remained at large Wednesday as police released video of the escape.

A boy around 12 years old was rescued by firefighters after plunging through thin ice on a retention pond in Fox Lake Wednesday morning.

United Airlines will collect contact information from passengers when they check in as part of an effort by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to better track spread of the coronavirus.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday followed through on a pledge to introduce a plan to the City Council that would eliminate loopholes in the city’s Welcoming City Ordinance that currently allow police to in some cases cooperate with federal immigration agents. Lightfoot drew the ire of some Latino aldermen and activists this fall when she tried to include the changes in her 2021 budget as a way to try to get their support. Facing criticism, the mayor removed the language from the package, and it passed 29-21.

Two teens were arrested Tuesday after someone took a woman’s vehicle at gunpoint in the Rogers Park neighborhood, according to Chicago police.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s law department attempted in court this week to block local news station WBBM-Ch. 2 from airing body camera footage of Chicago Police officers raiding an innocent woman’s home and handcuffing her while she was naked. The city also filed a request to have the woman, Anjanette Young, sanctioned for allegedly violating a confidentiality order.Lightfoot officials made the rare request to prevent a television station from airing a news report in an emergency court filing Monday evening, which a federal judge rejected. Читать дальше...

Health care workers in Chicago and Peoria received the first COVID-19 vaccine shots in Illinois.

The Cabrini-Green rowhouses are the surviving Cabrini buildings near where the infamous high-rise housing projects stood.

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The popular black and orange butterflies were determined to be warranted for listing under the Endangered Species Act, but they’ll have to wait behind others with higher priority, according to a Tuesday decision from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

An Aurora man has been charged with reckless homicide and aggravated driving under the influence after a passenger in his vehicle died during a crash in the city, officials said.

Nearly three weeks after Thanksgiving, no dramatic post-holiday surge in COVID-19 has emerged in the latest state data, although some hopeful trends seemed to stall after the long weekend.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability announced Tuesday that it finished its investigation of the 2018 fatal officer-involved shooting of Maurice Granton Jr. and handed its findings over to the Chicago Police Department for review, a move that likely indicates the shooting was out of policy.

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker laid out more than $700 million in cuts Tuesday to deal with a projected $3.9 billion budget deficit, contending Republicans need to offer their own plan and blaming them for playing a role in destabilizing state finances even before the pandemic sent tax revenues crashing.

The FBI is searching for a man who robbed a Fifth Third Bank in Aurora Monday afternoon.

The city of Chicago moved more than a dozen states to its most severe travel order designation, but people returning from those areas only need to quarantine for 10 days now, officials announced Tuesday.

As winter break nears, CPS and CTU still appear far apart on plans to reopen schools.

Mayor Lori LIghtfoot on Tuesday called it “a mistake” for downtown aldermen to oppose her plan to fast-track a special property tax district for North Michigan Avenue, saying business owners on the Magnificent Mile want to pay into a fund to improve security following looting incidents there and coax shoppers back to the area during the pandemic.

The Chicago Board of Ethics has fined an alderman $5,000 for defending a former City Council colleague in a criminal case, saying doing so violates a city government ethics rule Mayor Lori Lightfoot pushed through last year.