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On Thursday, COVID-19 vaccination availability opened to teens as young as 12-years-old to receive the Pfizer vaccine prompting four cousins in the Northwest suburbs to take advantage of the new opportunity. The four cousins are 13 and 14-years old and were all eligible to get their vaccinates at an Advocate Health Care Clinic in Des Plains together on Thursday. “It’s…

A northwest Indiana couple is speaking out after their 5-year-old daughter was diagnosed with the rare inflammatory condition that has been linked to COVID-19 cases in children.

With their daughters’ determination and the assistance of hospital staff, a suburban husband and wife, who were married for 76 years, were able to spend their final moments together. Carmen Siciliano, and his wife, Mary, both in their 90s, met when Carmen was 22, years old, and Mary was 17. As the story goes, Mary was actually interested in someone…

Right now some very proud parents are celebrating the first babies to be born across the Chicago area in 2020. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the story.

Some of the first babies of 2020 have been born in Illinois.