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Good morning, Chicago. Here’s the coronavirus news and other top stories you need to know to start your day.
Illinois announced 1,173 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Monday, as well as 6 additional deaths. The totals were lower than recent days but so was the number of test results announced: 34,598.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker laid out a new coronavirus plan last week. How the state will manage any outbreaks in 3 charts.
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Chicago may see an influx of federal agents as soon as this week as President Donald Trump readies to make good on repeated pledges he would try to tamp down violence here, a move that would come amid growing controversy nationally about federal force being used in American cities.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, for example, is crafting plans to deploy about 150 federal agents to the city this week, the Chicago Tribune has learned.
The Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, agents are set to assist other federal law enforcement and Chicago police in crime-fighting efforts, according to sources familiar with the matter, though a specific plan on what the agents will be doing — and what their limits would be — had not been made public.
Chicago bars won’t be able to serve customers alcohol indoors starting Friday
Chicago bars that don’t sell food will no longer be allowed to serve alcohol indoors starting this Friday as part of a new effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Monday. The city also will limit all indoor fitness classes to a maximum of 10 people and ban personal services requiring the removal of masks, such as shaves and facials, her administration announced.
Residential buildings to set visitor limit at 5 due to COVID-19, but questions raised over how to enforce rule: ‘There’s not a lot of teeth’
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said if allegations involving Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who for decades has been at the controls of whether legislation lives or dies inside the State Capitol, and the state’s largest utility, Commonwealth Edison, are true then he should step down.
Expressway shootings have surged in the Chicago area this year, already surpassing what is normally seen in an entire year and increasing pressure for the installation of better cameras as well as scanners that read license plates.
Chicago transgender couple featured on new TLC special ‘My Pregnant Husband’
A South Side transgender couple share their journey to parenthood on the new TV special “My Pregnant Husband.” Myles and Precious Brady-Davis welcomed their daughter, Zayn, in December 2019. Cameras follow the couple during Myles’ third trimester as he expresses discomfort with his body, faces a pregnancy complication and recounts a “heartbreaking” encounter with police officers he said mistook his baby bump for stolen merchandise.
