Staff Reportnews@thewoodstockindependent.comHealth officials are warning people who live and work in northern Illinois that COVID-19 case rates are rising and now is the time to work to avoid a surge […]
By Cheryl WormleyThis is the anniversary of my first COVID Declarations. Yes, it was two years ago this week when I wrote: “This too shall pass. Until then …” With […]
Local numbers keep falling for new cases of COVID-19.Face masks are optional just about everywhere.Even the McHenry County Department of Public Health has shut down its COVID-19 call center.Most people, […]
By PETER HANCOCKCapitol News Illinoisphancock@capitolnewsillinois.comSPRINGFIELD – Schools in Illinois are free to enforce mask mandates and other COVID-19 mitigations on their own, but the emergency rules that the Illinois Department […]
PETER HANCOCKCapitol News Illinoisphancock@capitolnewsillinois.comSPRINGFIELD – The question of whether K-12 schools in Illinois can continue to enforce mask mandates and other COVID-19 mitigations remained unclear Wednesday as all three branches […]
Some students are wearing masks, some are not in Woodstock School District 200 as they’re caught in the middle of a legal and political fight playing out in Illinois.Six parents […]
By PETER HANCOCKCapitol News Illinoisphancock@capitolnewsillinois.comSPRINGFIELD – A legislative panel on Tuesday voted to suspend the latest version of COVID-19 mitigations for public schools, saying in part that those rules were […]
By JERRY NOWICKICapitol News Illinoisjnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.comSPRINGFIELD – If hospitalizations for COVID-19 continue to decline for the rest of the month, Gov. J.B. Pritzker plans to lift his executive order that mandates […]
By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.comSPRINGFIELD – Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration are asking a state appellate court to set aside a lower court order from […]
By PETER HANCOCKCapitol News Illinoisphancock@capitolnewsillinois.comSPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday that he was “cautiously optimistic” that the recent surge in COVID-19 cases spurred by the omicron variant had peaked, […]
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