Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday introduced $140 million in federal grants to Illinois Medicaid suppliers to lend a hand offset sudden prices associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the state, federally funded well being facilities “have been performing heroically on the frontlines of this pandemic since the very first patient showed up with COVID-19, and they haven’t stopped despite months and months of truly grueling work and difficult circumstances,” Pritzker mentioned all through a information convention on the Howard Brown Health Center in Englewood. The grant cash is from the coronavirus reduction invoice, the $2.2 trillion financial stimulus packaged signed into legislation previous this yr. Theresa Eagleson, director of the state Department of Healthcare and Family Services, mentioned just about
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Dear Abby: ‘Let me call you right back,’ buddy says, however
DEAR ABBY: I've an excellent buddy I’ve recognized for 18 years. Without fail, each and every time we’re at the telephone and she or he will get some other name, she’ll say, “Oh, let me call you right back,” however she by no means does. Sometimes days will cross by way of till I name her or she calls me, after which she acts like not anything came about. We may well be in the midst of a dialog however she doesn’t name again. Or, she’ll name me whilst she’s riding someplace and finish the decision when she has arrived at her vacation spot, if she hasn’t already hung as much as take some other name. Is she a
Man in custody after hostage state of affairs at Dolton motel
An hours-long hostage state of affairs used to be resolved with none critical accidents Thursday after a person refused to unlock his son and the boy’s mom from a motel in south suburban Dolton. The state of affairs spread out about 1:16 p.m. when officials replied to a document of a “suspicious incident” on the Prestige Inn and Suites, 1335 E. Sibley Blvd., Dolton Police Chief Ernest Mobley stated at a information convention Thursday night time. When they arrived, officials faced a 33-year-old guy who had barricaded himself in a room along with his 4-year-old kid and the 25-year-old mom, Mobley stated. “He just wanted to be left alone but he wouldn’t release the child or the
Latest coronavirus information for September 24, 2020: Live updates
The newest Early vote casting begins in collar counties, however Cook County citizens will wait till October Hand sanitizer and stickers are arrange at a polling station in Chicago on March 17, 2020.James Foster/For the Sun-Times Early vote casting began in a lot of Illinois on Thursday — 40 days sooner than the Nov. Three election — however
Dear Abby: Mom says my well mannered, pudgy boyfriend is ‘gross’
DEAR ABBY: I’m a 35-year-old unmarried mother. I’ve dated a couple of folks over the past seven years, however none of them sought after to dedicate. Several months in the past, I began seeing “Joey,” a pal of a few years. He’s candy, respectful and hardworking, and he is helping me each time I would like it. Joey is at the heavy facet, however he’s blank and kempt. I presented him to my mother, and she or he continues to mention he's “gross.” She refers to him most effective as “that man” and not by way of his identify. He has at all times been very well mannered and hasn't ever mentioned the rest to her out
Controversial ‘no-knock’ warrants puzzled in Breonna
In Illinois, no-knock warrants are criminal and are issued on the discretion of a pass judgement on. State legislation stipulates that the pass judgement on who indicators a warrant “may authorize the officer executing the warrant to make entry without first knocking and announcing his or her office” if the officer believes {that a} weapon could be used or if there's an “imminent” threat that proof could be destroyed. The Chicago Police Department calls for officials who’ve been issued a no-knock warrant to first visit a SWAT group manager prior to executing the warrant. The CPD’s use of no-knock warrants has come underneath scrutiny in recent times, with a number of complaints filed in opposition to officials who allegedly used
Gale Sayers’ greatness as a Bear left us in need of such a lot
There is what used to be, and there's what would possibly had been. What must had been. There is the stirring reminiscence of what Gale Sayers did as a operating again for the Bears, and there's the unshakeable trust that he would have achieved so a lot more if now not for the shortcomings of the human knee. Here one second at the soccer box, and long past the following. The Kansas Comet certainly. Sayers died Wednesday at 77 after coping with dementia for years. He can be remembered maximum for a super afternoon wherein he tied an NFL document with six touchdowns in a recreation, and he's going to be remembered for accidents that robbed him of his pace