Coronavirus in Chicago

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...

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. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter has the story.