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Maria Ochoa, 50, inside her home May 5, 2020, in Chicago. Ochoa, her husband and daughter have been sick with COVID-19 and believes her family contracted the virus from her husband's meatpacking job in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

Latino communities in Illinois see uptick in COVID-19 confirmed cases: ‘Physical distancing is a privilege’

May 7, 2020 at 8:24 p.m.

As a wave of coronavirus infections spreads through Latino neighborhoods in Chicago, one health site in Little Village has seen people so sick with the new coronavirus that they've passed...

Inmigrante acordó quedarse en la cárcel para evitar problemas con ICE y perdió la vida por COVID-19

May 6, 2020 at 8:13 p.m.

A principios de marzo, Rene Olivo Sangabriel era sólo uno de los miles de reclusos del condado de Cook que pronto se encontrarían en el camino devastador de COVID-19. Sangabriel,...

Inmate who agreed to stay in Cook County Jail to avoid immigration trouble lost life to COVID-19 instead

March 11, 2024 at 2:05 p.m.

In early March, Rene Olivo Sangabriel was just one among the thousands of Cook County Jail inmates who would soon find themselves in the devastating path of COVID-19. Sangabriel, 42,...

A car that was part of a stream of honking vehicles that traveled through the Pilsen neighborhood Friday, May 1, 2020, as community leaders pushed residents to fill out the 2020 census to improve response rates in the area.

With stay-at-order in place, Latino leaders, groups use caravan in Pilsen to urge households to fill out census

May 1, 2020 at 10:18 p.m.

A stream of honking cars blared through the Pilsen neighborhood Friday as community leaders pushed residents to fill out the 2020 census to improve response rates in the area. Motorists...

City View Multicare Center nursing home, 5825 W. Cermak Road, Cicero, on April 24, 2020.

More than 200 residents, staff at Cicero nursing home test positive for COVID-19 as at least 9 deaths associated with facility

April 28, 2020 at 10:32 p.m.

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at a Cicero nursing home continued to climb Tuesday, with officials now reporting eight residents and one worker have died from coronavirus-related conditions. As...

Umha, 16, her sister Nina, 10, and their cousin Yalda, 5 at their apartment in Aurora on April 13, 2020.

Refugees try to make new start in Chicago as COVID-19 upends daily life: ‘Once we get back to the normal life, we want to walk freely’

April 27, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

Like many practicing social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, Farhan Ali has turned to Netflix. But Ali, 21, isn't just watching for entertainment. He's improving his English. About a month...

The Symphony of South Shore nursing home on April 22, 2020. More than 100 residents of the nursing home have tested positive for COVID-19.

10 residents at South Shore nursing home die from COVID-19, 100 more test positive for the coronavirus

April 22, 2020 at 10:02 p.m.

Ten residents of a South Shore senior center have died from coronavirus-related complications and about 100 more have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the company that runs it and several other...

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

COVID-19: Where do we go from here? Experts say contact tracing, more testing key to suppressing new coronavirus, reopening economy

April 28, 2020 at 5:13 p.m.

As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, new questions arise every day. We started taking concerns from Tribune readers to experts in early March. For our newest set of questions and...

Police officers stand guard as protesters stand across the street from Mayor Lori Lightfoot's home to bring attention to the demolition of the Crawford power plant in Little Village, carried out by a company named Hilco, on May 14, 2020, in Chicago. The mayor initially imposed a moratorium on the demolition after a partial implosion of the plant on April 11 created a potentially hazardous dust plume in Little Village, but residents were informed the city has allowed the demolition process to continue.

Cleanup efforts to begin at site of shuttered Crawford Generating Station in Little Village

April 21, 2020 at 9:32 p.m.

Cleanup efforts are expected to begin soon at the shuttered Crawford Generating Station that is at the center of controversy after a demolition on the property sent a cloud of...

An ambulance leaves the Chateau Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Willowbrook on March 17, 2020, where officials announced March 18 that those testing positive with COVID-19 had grown to 42 people.

Nearly 300 Illinois nursing home patients and staff have died from COVID-19, but the state won’t say which facilities are infected

April 19, 2020 at 12:29 a.m.

Nearly 300 Illinois nursing home patients and staff have died from COVID-19, but exactly where still remains largely cloaked in secrecy. Unlike some states, Illinois hasn't named specific facilities where...

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