Austin Mayor Steve Adler went on vacation to Mexico with family in November as he urged people to stay ag8亚集团官方网站home amid worsening coronavirus caseloads in Texas.

Illinois public health officials reported 238 coronavirus deaths Wednesday, the most in a single day since the pandemic began.

A streaming theater company This Moment Productions is launching with the world premiere of “A Very Covid Christmas Carol” from Dec. 11-24 virtually.

President-elect Joe Biden swung behind a bipartisan COVID-19 relief effort Wednesday.

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

Most hospitals will prioritize COVID-19 vaccines for front line workers that deal directly with patients. And at least a handful of Chicago area hospital systems won’t make the vaccine mandatory for employees, for now.

Here's a look at holiday light displays at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Morton Arboretum Illumination in Lisle, the Farnsworth House in Plano and Santa’s Rock N Lights at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake.

School District U46 students will continue remote learning until January, U46 CEO Tony Sanders said, because the number of COVID-19 cases are expected surge again.

Does alcohol make you more susceptible to the coronavirus? That’s one of many COVID-19 questions from readers that we put to science experts.

The 15th annual edition of “Sing We Joyous” is going virtual, premiering on Dec. 12.

Hospital workers are first in line for coronavirus vaccines, but what if a hospital worker is pregnant? The recommendation is yes, get a vaccine.

Some frontline staff at Community Hospital in Munster could see their first of two COVID-19 vaccine shots if it gets emergency approval later this month.

Here's how to get a fast, affordable, reliable COVID test. Northwestern vice president of operations Heather Keirnan guides us through the process.

British officials ized a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Wednesday, greenlighting the world’s first shot against the virus that’s backed by rigorous science.

Health officials urge Americans to stay ag8亚集团官方网站home during the holiday season and consider getting virus tests if they travel.

Chicago-area hospitals continue to see a decline in emergency room visits as wary Illinoisans delay care out of concerns of contracting the coronavirus, and that has doctors worried.

Lake County, where Indiana's second-most cases have been found, cracked 30,000 cases in Wednesday reporting and now has had 30,007 with 375 new cases.

Here's where Illinois' 11 regions stand on the key metrics that would prompt the state to restrict activities to contain an outbreak.

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As the pandemic continues, the Tribune is tracking Illinois deaths, cases, test results and more here.

Chicago-area hospitals continue to see a decline in emergency room visits as wary Illinoisans delay care out of concerns of contracting the coronavirus, and that has doctors worried.

Lake County, where Indiana's second-most cases have been found, cracked 30,000 cases in Wednesday reporting and now has had 30,007 with 375 new cases.

Here's where Illinois' 11 regions stand on the key metrics that would prompt the state to restrict activities to contain an outbreak.

Search COVID-19 cases in Illinois by ZIP code

As the pandemic continues, the Tribune is tracking Illinois deaths, cases, test results and more here.

The nation’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will hinge to some extent on how quickly show managers can become electricians, whether taxi drivers can become plumbers, and how many cooks can manage software for a bank.

For pedestrians who cannot see or have limited vision, navigating the chaotic sidewalks and crosswalks of New York City was dicey enough before the pandemic. But the outbreak, blind people say, has made crossing the city’s streets even riskier and more harrowing.

An owner of a New York City bar that was providing indoor service in defiance of coronavirus restrictions was arrested.

Estefan, 63, says she was fortunate, enduring only “a little bit of a cough” and dehydration after losing her sense of smell and taste, and has tested negative twice since recovering.

A sharp, clear-eyed procedural, shot in four different hospitals in Wuhan, China, in the early months of 2020.

The Naperville City Council opted to take a positive approach to wearing a mask in public rather pursue punitive measures through a mandate.

No Zoom for Oscars 2021, as Academy says ‘in-person telecast will happen’

Just as the pandemic has altered so many aspects of life, it has also disrupted the experience of death and grieving. Now mourners are creating new and innovative ways to honor the dying and departed, while keeping within the bounds of pandemic protocols.

Jan. 11 is the date Chicago Public Schools is to resume in-person classes, but not for all students.

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

Health care workers and nursing ag8亚集团官方网站home residents should be at the front of the line when the first coronavirus vaccine shots become available.

The city of Chicago expects to begin rolling out vaccines for health care workers later this month and could provide them to lower-risk residents in spring and children by summer, public health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said Tuesday. The first distribution of vaccines will go toward Chicago hospitals and health care workers, possibly by the third week of December, Arwady said. The city’s also working with long-term care facilities in the city on vaccines, she said.

Official: CDC to shorten guidance for quarantining after COVID-19 exposure to 10 days, 7 with a negative test.

The proposal hit the scales at $908 billion, including $228 billion to extend and upgrade “paycheck protection” subsidies for businesses for a second round of relief to hard-hit businesses.

More of the country will be under Chicago’s most severe category for its travel quarantine order, city officials announced Tuesday while bracing for a post-Thanksgiving surge.

The coronavirus has cast a pall over Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, all but shutting down the biblical town revered as Jesus’ birthplace at the height of the normally cheery holiday season.

All this fall, as vehement debates have raged over whether to reopen schools for in-person instruction, teachers have been at the center — often vilified for challenging it, sometimes warmly praised for trying to make it work. But the debate has often missed just how thoroughly the coronavirus has upended learning in the country’s 130,000 schools, and glossed over how emotionally and physically draining pandemic teaching has become for the educators themselves.

A nurse in Oregon who mocked the state’s pandemic protocols in a video that circulated on TikTok by saying she does not wear a mask in public has been placed on administrative leave, her employer said.

Frontline health care workers have been the one constant, the medical soldiers forming row after row in the ground war against the raging spread of the coronavirus. But as cases and deaths shatter daily records, foreshadowing one of the deadliest years in American history, the very people whose life mission is caring for others are on the verge of collective collapse.

The Indiana State Department of Health added 142 deaths to the statewide toll with its daily update on Tuesday. Most of those deaths occurred over the past week with a reporting lull from local officials over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Illinois public health officials on Tuesday announced 12,542 newly confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, a significant jump after several days of lower numbers.

The Book Stall in Winnetka will be temporarily closed this week due to COVID-19 safety precautions.

After a summer of uncertainty and fear about how schools across the globe would operate in a pandemic, a consensus has emerged in more and more districts: In-person teaching with young children is safer than with older ones and particularly crucial for their development.

Five weeks into a second nationwide lockdown, France, like much of Europe, has proved that it is possible to bring the rate of known infections down, even with schools open.

Testing for COVID-19 has greatly expanded in Illinois. Search our map for a site near you.

The mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, said early Tuesday that the city would reopen a coronavirus testing site at Union Station, a major transit hub, after residents criticized a decision to temporarily close the site during a film shoot.

Prison inmates are not ranked in the top tiers of the federal criteria, even though some of the largest outbreaks have occurred in the nation’s prisons. More than 2,200 inmates were sickened and 28 people died, for example, after an outbreak in the San Quentin State Prison in California over the summer.

After months of deliberation and debate, a panel of independent experts advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to decide Tuesday afternoon which Americans it will recommend to get the coronavirus vaccine first, while supply is still short.

Area public libraries are making services changes amid latest statewide COVID-19 restrictions.

Atlas joined the White House this summer, where he clashed with top government scientists as he resisted stronger efforts to contain the pandemic.

With vaccines and a new administration, the pandemic will be tamed. But experts say the coming months “are going to be just horrible.”

Oak Park District 97 students to remain fully remote through at least mid-January

Officials enforcing coronavirus orders that ban gatherings of more than 10 people shut down a party with 300 people in Wicker Park over the weekend and cited a business for hosting a party with more than 600 attendees, the city of Chicago said in a news release.

The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations across Illinois has begun to bend downward after weeks of sharp growth, state data shows, but public health advocates have expressed unease that infections from the Thanksgiving holiday may undo any improvements.

Health experts had pleaded with Americans to stay ag8亚集团官方网站home over Thanksgiving and not gather with anyone who didn't live with them. Nevertheless, almost 1.2 million people passed through U.S. airports Sunday.