David Heinzmann

An officer walks by three vehicles, including a Chicago police squad car, that were damaged June 3, 2020, while police pursued a homicide suspect near Ashland Avenue and Irving Park Road.

After motorist killed in high-speed police chase, mayor calls for review of pursuit policies

June 5, 2020 at 12:50 a.m.

The Chicago Police Department offered few details Thursday about a high-speed pursuit that killed a motorist when a police SUV sped through a red light the night before and caused...

Northwestern University scientist John Rogers in his lab located on the campus at Northwestern University Technological Institute in Evanston, Feb. 28, 2019.

Stick-on medical device, worn on the neck, streams COVID-19 symptom data to docs

June 4, 2020 at 11:46 p.m.

A device originally designed by Northwestern University engineers to record progress in stroke patients has been repurposed to study the effects of COVID-19 as it runs its course through the...

University of Illinois emergency ventilator project finds a manufacturer

May 14, 2020 at 11:08 p.m.

Less than two months after they started to design a low-cost ventilator for emergency use, engineers and doctors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have cleared the biggest hurdle...

Fermilab physicists go outside comfort zone to help design low-cost ventilator to fight COVID-19

May 6, 2020 at 2:13 a.m.

Particle physics and medical device manufacturing may have little in common, but in the middle of a global health emergency scientists at Fermilab found they had a lot to offer...

A message of encouragement on a lawn sign is posted at Newton Care Center nursing home on April 29, 2020.

‘People are frightened’: Across rural Illinois, economic frustrations mix with anxiety over COVID-19

May 2, 2020 at 11:49 p.m.

Cindy Backstein worries about her 88-year-old mother, who lives in a locked-down Jasper County nursing home where dozens of people have been infected with COVID-19. At the same time, she...

Sterilized N95 masks are collected for return to regional hospitals.

Amid N95 mask shortage, new Waukegan site set up to sterilize thousands of masks daily with hydrogen peroxide gas

April 20, 2020 at 10:43 p.m.

Six years ago, the federal government hired an Ohio biochemical research company to figure out the best way to clean precious N95 masks if a pandemic ever created a shortage...

Medical workers from Weiss Memorial Hospital are eager to get their hands on a ventilator as a supply of General Motors-made products from Ventec Life Systems arrive April 17, 2020. United Parcel Service shipped two pallets of the ventilators.

First batch of GM-made ventilators headed for Chicago

April 18, 2020 at 1:12 a.m.

The first truckloads of General Motors-made medical ventilators from a central Indiana factory began arriving at Chicago-area hospitals Friday morning, with subsequent deliveries planned through Saturday. A shipment arrived Friday...

Lurie Children's Hospital employees screen fellow employees and give out hand sanitizer and masks as workers arrive on April 15, 2020. The hospital has furloughed about 20% of its staff through the end of April, with pay, said spokeswoman Julie Pesch.

Busy, yet struggling: Illinois hospitals lose $1.4 billion a month as coronavirus cancels surgeries

April 18, 2020 at 12:32 a.m.

Though Illinois hospitals are, in many ways, busier than ever as they care for patients with the new coronavirus, they're also taking a financial beating that's affecting their workers and...

Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn is pictured on May 21, 2019. The hospital declined to provide any information about current ICU bed capacity.

North, southwest suburbs have lowest percentages of ICU hospital beds available

April 9, 2020 at 12:09 a.m.

Chicago's north and southwest suburbs have the lowest percentages of available intensive care unit beds in Illinois, according to data released by the governor's office Tuesday. In the north suburbs,...

Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside Heartland Health Centers in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

As COVID-19 cases increase, intensive care beds are filling up at Chicago-area hospitals

April 7, 2020 at 12:21 a.m.

As the number of coronavirus patients in Illinois continues to grow, some Chicago-area hospitals have already filled all of the intensive care unit beds they had before the pandemic hit....

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