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CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has become an meme phenomenon with her actions to encourage and enforce social distancing in the city. And she seems to be embracing it.
CHICAGO — In the relentless tide of bad news from the coronavirus epidemic, there is occasionally the glimpse of brilliance.
CHICAGO — International Mr. Leather, the largest indoor LGBTQ event in the state and the largest leather event in the country, is postponing their annual Memorial day event.
CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. J.B. Prizker announced that Illinois was under a shelter-in-place order on Friday afternoon.
CHICAGO — More than two dozen leading authors of lesbian fiction are participating in the #lesficforthepandemic party on Facebook March 22 (this Sunday), including Midwest-based authors Elizabeth Andre (Chicago), Anne Hagan (Ohio), CL Cattano (Kansas City, MO), and Jea Hawkins (Nebraska).
CHICAGO — The Chicago Tribune reported Friday that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker plans to issue a shelter-in-place order statewide, starting Saturday.
In a Friday morning press conference, Pritzker said that three more people had died of COVID-19, including the first outside the Chicago metro area in Sangamon County.
The newspaper reported that the order is expected to be announced at a 3 p.m. press conference with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
CHICAGO — Here are some of the closings and event cancellations that we’ve told about.
CHICAGO — Chicago attorney Jill Rose Quinn won the Democratic primary on Tuesday for a vacant judicial seat. After the November election, she will be the state’s first out transgender elected official.
CHICAGO — The state of Illinois announced the first death from COVID-19 in the state during the daily press conference.
The person who died is a woman in her 60s in the Chicago area who had been in contact with someone else who had coronavirus, according to Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health.