Coronavirus in Chicago

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said on Thursday that she wants to reopen Chicago restaurants and bars “as quickly as possible,” which she said will be a conversation with the governor.

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Chicago’s quarantine list dropped to 21 states Tuesday as the city updated its travel order, which still does not include Indiana despite warnings from health officials last week.

The state of Illinois surpassed a major milestone on Sunday – more than 4 million coronavirus tests performed since the pandemic began.

Chicago Public Schools on Tuesday released its “final reopening framework,” offering specifics on a remote learning plan the district announced earlier this month.

Illinois’ mask mandate applies “even outside,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday, noting that residents should still be wearing masks even if they’re just walking down the street.

There’s one number Chicagoans should be following most when it comes to coronavirus data being released by the city’s health department, according to the city’s top public health official.

Chicago’s travel order was updated once again Tuesday, with Puerto Rico now on the city’s quarantine list.

In early May, Chicago reached its highest number of daily cases during the coronavirus pandemic so far, crossing 4,000 cases in a massive and unprecedented one-day spike.

Four states, including Wisconsin, were added to Chicago’s emergency travel order Tuesday, requiring anyone visiting or returning to the city from one of now 22 states to self-quarantine for 14 days.

Chicago won’t be adding Indiana to its emergency travel order this week, the city’s mayor said, though she noted the city is “watching all of our neighbors very carefully.”

One of Illinois’ 11 health care regions is “dangerously close” to seeing more restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus, Gov. J.B. Pritzker warned Wednesday.

Imagine standing in Chicago, and firing at a foot-square target in Seattle. That’s the precision with which scientists at Lemont’s Argonne National Laboratory are attacking the coronavirus on a daily basis. “So people don’t think of the Department of Energy as working in human health and biology,” says the lab’s Dr. Stephen Streiffer. “But we really have at the...

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are engaged in an all-hands-on-deck effort to find a treatment for the coronavirus. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers has the exclusive report.

The city of Chicago entered phase three of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday, but it isn’t what some business owners and residents expected. NBC 5’s Mary Ann reports.

How many Chicagoans are being tested for the coronavirus and how many need to be tested for city life to get closer to normal? NBC 5’s Phil Rogers breaks down the numbers.

With Chicagoans clamoring for the exits of their government-imposed exiles, one key metric set by the city appears to still present a considerable challenge: the ability to test five percent of Chicago’s residents each month. That comes to roughly 135,000 Chicagoans, and breaks down to 4,500 tests each day. But NBC5 Investigates has crunched the numbers, and the city has…

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has now revealed details on a five-phased plan to reopen Illinois as the state remains under a stay-at-home order through May 30.

The two charts below show where things stand right now, and how social-distancing orders aim to change them — if we all follow the rules. We want the first chart to level off. We want the second chart to drop sharply downhill. We will continue to update both charts, every day:

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot painted a grim picture for residents Thursday as she explained why officials have been so quick to enforce compliance with the state’s “stay-at-home” order in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. “We don’t have a vaccine, we don’t have a treatment,” Chicago Department of Public Health head Dr. Allison Arwady said. “They we do that...