Daywatch: Officials say shutdown won’t end soon, innocence claims sit as courts shut down and how to control your pandemic drinking

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Good morning, Chicago. Here is the coronavirus news and other top stories you need to know to start your day.

Illinois officials on Tuesday announced 1,287 new known coronavirus cases and 73 more deaths — the state’s largest number in a single day since the outbreak began — bringing the total to 13,549 known cases, including 380 deaths

Across the U.S., the death toll topped 13,000 from the coronavirus, with around 400,000 confirmed infections, the Associated Press reported Tuesday

Worldwide, about 1.4 million people have been confirmed infected and over 80,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday

Lightfoot says Illinois’ stay-at-home order ‘a long way away’ from being phased out in the city; Pritzker says ‘solution isn’t coming tomorrow, or next week or next month’

Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued the order last month and extended it through the end of April. Asked how the city will determine when the stay-at-home order can be phased out, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said, “We’re a long way away from that.”

On what originally would have been the final day of his statewide stay-at-home order, the governor reiterated later Tuesday said that the best way to slow the spread of the virus is for people to continue remaining at home as much as possible through April 30, and perhaps beyond.

COVID-19 cases in Illinois by ZIP code: Search for your neighborhood

Federal stimulus checks may start arriving this week. Here’s who gets what and how.

In battleground Wisconsin, long voter lines, no election results and a missed opportunity to build toward November

Wary voters clad in masks waited in long, socially distanced lines across Wisconsin on Tuesday amid a political firestorm over whether the state’s election should have been held in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic that has left Americans in 42 states ordered to stay home.

With Republicans insisting democracy go on and Democrats calling the exercise reckless, Wisconsinites who had not already voted absentee by mail faced the choice between running the risk of contracting the highly contagious COVID-19 at the polls or abandoning their right to vote.

Inmates with ongoing innocence claims sit in prisons threatened by coronavirus as courts shut down

Inmates Wayne Antusas and Nicholas Morfin have been approaching a potential turning point in their criminal cases — a chance to go before judges and argue their innocence in a 1995 double murder.

But now it’s unclear whether Antusas and Morfin will have their hearings, previously set for May, anytime soon. Innocence claims such as theirs are among the many legal matters potentially delayed by the spread of COVID-19, a pandemic that has brought the Cook County court system to a virtual halt while also elevating the danger of sitting in prison or jail.

Everyone is having groceries delivered during the pandemic, but food stamp recipients still must go out to shop. Illinois is trying to change that.

Online grocery delivery has become vital for many in Illinois who are trying to stay home during the coronavirus outbreak. But food stamp recipients — who advocates say are at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 — can’t shop that way.

Is your pandemic drinking out of control? Here’s what to do about it.

The COVID-19 quarantine has parked us all indoors and thrown away our routines. Once-regular activities — commuting to work, social outings, etc. — have been all but eliminated as we shelter in place. In the context of a quarantine, indulging in alcohol is an understandable human compulsion, said Dr. Danesh Alam, who specializes in addiction psychiatry at Northwestern Medicine.