Nearly every county in Illinois is seeing elevated numbers of COVID cases in recent weeks, with public health officials advising residents in some communities.
Illinois health officials reported 33,066 new coronavirus cases over the past week, along with 59 additional deaths, marking slight increases in both metrics.
Illinois will soon have a new Department of Public Health director and its first electric vehicles coordinator after Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced those appointments in recent days.
As new, highly-transmissible omicron subvariants spread across the U.S., in some cases evading immunity from earlier infections, many are wondering if they are.