Jamie Munks

Englewood resident Fannie Peeples gets a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Friend Health nurse Syreetta Stinson at the Peace House of I Grow Chicago, March 26, 2021. I Grow Chicago teamed with Friend Health to provide 150 vaccines, coffee and doughnuts at the event.

Illinois starts administering COVID-19 vaccine amid optimism and thoughts of the disease’s victims

December 16, 2020 at 1:53 a.m.

As the first COVID-19 vaccine administered in Illinois was plunged into Dr. Marina Del Rios' left arm Tuesday, she thought about all the people who didn't live to see the...

Jon Horton, Sentara director of pharmacy operations, unpacks boxes of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccination Dec. 14, 2020, morning in Norfolk, Virginia.

Hope at a historic moment: First COVID-19 vaccinations scheduled to be given in Illinois on Tuesday

December 15, 2020 at 3:26 p.m.

The first COVID-19 vaccinations in Illinois are scheduled to be administered Tuesday, bringing a sense of hope along with the most significant action yet to blunt a pandemic that has...

Illinois House panel adjourns after a party-line vote fails to uphold charges that Madigan acted improperly in ComEd case

December 15, 2020 at 12:43 a.m.

A vote by a special Illinois House committee to charge embattled House Speaker Michael Madigan with conduct unbecoming a legislator failed along party lines on Monday, effectively ending a monthslong...

Illinois and Chicago receive first shipments of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

December 15, 2020 at 1:26 a.m.

Illinois on Monday received its first shipments of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine approved for emergency use late last week by federal regulators. The state received about 43,000 doses of the...

A family photo of Jerome Liesse, a World War II Air Force veteran, on Dec. 8, 2020. Liesse was one of 36 residents who died in an coronavirus outbreak at the state-run veterans home in LaSalle.

Gov. Pritzker put on defensive by COVID-19 outbreak that tore through LaSalle VA home with terrifying speed

December 12, 2020 at 1:44 p.m.

As a young man in the Army Air Forces during World War II, Jerome Liesse flew around the globe, delivering supplies to far-flung U.S. troops, his granddaughter said. Because of...

Margaret Orozco pushes her bike to get tested for coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020.

Illinois surpasses 14,000 COVID-19 deaths less than a week after hitting 13,000 mark; Pfizer vaccine authorized by FDA

December 12, 2020 at 2:50 a.m.

Illinois on Friday surpassed 14,000 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic began, less than a week after the statewide death toll reached 13,000. The state reported an additional 190 deaths of...

Chicago officials outline initial coronavirus vaccine distribution plans: ‘We are very ready for the vaccine as it comes’

December 10, 2020 at 12:58 a.m.

With federal approval for two coronavirus vaccines expected soon, Chicago officials said Wednesday they hope to vaccinate all city adults in 2021 as they laid out their plans to roll...

Pritzker says next 4 weeks could be ‘the most crucial month of this entire pandemic’

December 8, 2020 at 3:07 a.m.

Illinois is entering what could be "the most crucial month of this entire pandemic," Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Monday, a period bookended by Thanksgiving and a string of December holidays...

Some flags fly at half-staff at the Illinois Veterans Home in LaSalle on Dec. 3, 2020. The coronavirus has killed 32 at the state-run home.

Administrator fired, nursing director placed on leave amid deadly coronavirus outbreak at Illinois veterans home in LaSalle

December 7, 2020 at 11:46 p.m.

The administrator of the state-run veterans home in LaSalle was fired Monday amid a deadly coronavirus outbreak that since early November has killed 32 veterans who lived there. Administrator Angela...

Illinois to distribute first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine to 50 counties with highest death rates, possibly by mid-December

December 5, 2020 at 2:14 a.m.

Illinois plans to distribute its initial allocation of roughly 109,000 doses of a new COVID-19 vaccine to the 50 counties across the state with the highest death rates from the...

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