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BREAKING: New Covid Variant Spreads Across Illinois, Spiking Calls For Mask Mandates
December 21, 2023A new covid variant is spreading through Illinois, leading to new mask mandates in hospitals and other public places and leading to renewed...
Continue ReadingIllinois Covid State Of Emergency Coming To An End?
February 1, 2023At long last, the state of emergency due to covid-19 is coming to an end in Illinois. Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced in a statement...
Continue ReadingCovid Restrictions Hit Illinois College, Will We See More Illinois School Shutdowns?
December 17, 2022With covid numbers spiking in Illinois, one state college has asked community members to make changes to help prevent the spread of the...
Continue ReadingAfter Three Years, Covid Finally Caught Me. This Is What It's Been Like.
November 4, 2022It finally caught up with me, the jerk. For the last three years, I've been dodging covid. I've written about it, I've known dozens of...
Continue ReadingBREAKING: Masks Return To Three Illinois Counties Due To Covid Spikes, Are More On The Way?
October 23, 2022BREAKING NEWS: The Quad-Cities area is at risk of going back to a mask mandate with covid numbers spiking in the area and reaching a "high"...
Continue ReadingIllinois Businesses Shut Down Due To Covid As Statewide Numbers Spike, Are More On The Way?
July 28, 2022Businesses have begun to shut down across the state as spiking covid numbers have hit their workers hard, causing the places to close...
Continue ReadingCovid Hits Circa ‘21, Performances Canceled through August 2
July 25, 2022Due to several more positive Covid cases in the Cast of DISASTER this morning, Circa ‘21 has made the difficult decision to cancel the...
Continue ReadingBREAKING: Covid Numbers Rampaging Across Illinois, Will There Be More Shutdowns?
July 23, 2022BREAKING NEWS: Covid numbers are rampaging again across Illinois, causing individual business shutdowns in the Quad-Cities and elsewhere,...
Continue ReadingWith Covid Returning, It Brings With It Lessons To Hold Onto
June 10, 2022I thought we were going to make it through. As far as we knew, my son and I had not had covid. Early on in 2020, we were both incredibly...
Continue ReadingBREAKING: Illinois Covid Cases Skyrocket 174 Percent, Masks Returning To Some Schools
May 19, 2022BREAKING NEWS: Illinois is in the midst of a massive covid-19 resurgence, as cases are up 174 percent over the last month and the state is...
Continue ReadingBREAKING: Covid-19 Numbers Spiking Again In Illinois, Could Masks Return?
May 16, 2022BREAKING NEWS: Covid-19 numbers are starting to spike again in Illinois, as this week, the state was seeing an average of 5,154 new cases...
Continue ReadingIt's Back... Covid Levels Are Tearing Upwards Again
May 9, 2022Just when you thought it was on its way out, covid is back. Numbers are starting to spike again in Illinois, as this week, the state was...
Continue ReadingIllinois Covid Numbers RISING AGAIN; How Does This Impact You?
April 25, 2022Is covid really in the rear view mirror? New covid numbers are rising again, prompting some Illinois and national officials to look warily...
Continue ReadingBREAKING: Illinois Officials Monitoring Spread Of New Covid Variant; Will You Be Impacted?
March 21, 2022BREAKING NEWS: Illinois officials are closely monitoring the increasing spread of the more virulent BA.2 omicron subvariant of covid-19,...
Continue ReadingWestern Illinois University Issues Covid-19 Update For Spring Break
March 13, 2022As the Western Illinois University Spring 2022 semester progresses toward spring break, March 14-18, COVID-19 campus procedures have been...
Continue ReadingBREAKING: Illinois In Danger Of Masking Up Again As Covid Rises?
March 11, 2022BREAKING NEWS: Could Illinois be in danger of having to mask up again as covid begins to rise in some areas of the state? Businesses,...
Continue ReadingSome Of Illinois Could Return To Masks As Covid Numbers RISE; Is Your Area At Risk?
March 11, 2022As covid-19 numbers decline overall statewide, some parts of the state are seeing numbers spike up again and some are in the high risk...
Continue ReadingIllinois Mask Mandate Ending TODAY, But Where Are Masks STILL Required?
February 28, 2022With covid numbers dropping a whopping 94 percent since the peak of the omicron variant surge, hospitalizations down 84 percent, and death...
Continue ReadingMasks No Longer Required In Illinois Businesses, OR Schools, Starting TOMORROW
February 27, 2022Illinois will no longer have a statewide mask mandate starting Monday -- including in schools. Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced on Friday...
Continue ReadingBREAKING NEWS: Moline Ending Mask Mandate Monday
February 25, 2022BREAKING NEWS: Beginning Monday, February 28, masks will no longer be required in Moline City Hall or any other City of Moline public...
Continue ReadingIllinois Mask Mandate Gone Monday, But How Long Will They Be In Schools?
February 24, 2022Illinois covid numbers for cases, infection rates, deaths and hospitalizations hit their lowest numbers in six months this week, as the...
Continue ReadingIllinois Congresswoman Bustos Pushes For Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests For Servicemembers and Their Families
February 22, 2022Today, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17) joined her colleagues on a letter to the Department of Defense urging Secretary Lloyd Austin to...
Continue ReadingWestern Illinois University Covid Vaccine Clinic Is Feb. 22
February 21, 2022The McDonough County Health Department, in cooperation with Western Illinois University, will host a COVID-19 vaccination clinic (including...
Continue ReadingA Special Message from Rock Island Schools Superintendent Dr. Lawrence Regarding Masks
February 18, 2022Starting, Monday, Feb. 21, RIMSD#41 will transition to "mask recommended" in all of our school buildings. February 18,...
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