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The deaths were a Will County woman in her 50s, a Cook County man in his 60s, and a Kane County man in his 90s. Two Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) correctional officers along with one man incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center tested positive with the coronavirus along with a contractual worker at Sheridan Correctional Center .
Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California. More than 40 percent of all residents of Illinois live within Cook County. As of 2020, the population was 5,275,541.
Chicago, Illinois: St. Alexius Medical Center: Female 60s The second confirmed case, a woman in her 60s living in Chicago, Illinois. [12] The woman had recently travelled to Wuhan to take care of a sick parent. [13] The woman exposed her husband, the sixth case, and both were cared for at St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois ...
Cassandra Greer-Lee lost her husband, Nickolas Lee, to COVID-19 in April 2020 while he was incarcerated in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S. Lee was just the ...
One of the largest clusters of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in the entire United States occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.On April 3, 2020, the civil rights law firm Loevy & Loevy, MacArthur Justice Center, and Civil Rights Corps filed an emergency class action lawsuit on behalf of detainees, alleging Sheriff Tom Dart failed to stop a "rapidly unfolding public health disaster ...
The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859. Cook County, established in 1831 and named for the early Illinois Attorney General Daniel Pope Cook, contained the absolute majority of the state's population in the first half of the 20th century and retains more than 40% of it as of the 2020 census.
However, the plan was pushed back three times due to the removal of the Cook County CEO in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, and budget problems in 2022. [8] Currently, the rebuilding project is on an indefinite pause, but Cook County officials have expressed hope to move forward in the future.
Illinois held its primary elections as scheduled despite concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [3] State election officials believed that this depressed voter turnout. [3] On June 16, 2020, Governor J. B. Pritzker signed a bill aimed at making it safer to vote in the November election.