COVID-19 tests at District 21 administration building
The Wheeling Township Elementary District 21 administration center will host community COVID-19 tests on Saturdays. Christopher Placek | Staff Photographer
Updated 3/5/2021 10:57 AM
Wheeling Township Elementary District 21 has opened a COVID-19 testing site at its district administration building in Wheeling.
In partnership with NorthShore Clinical Labs, the nasal swab PCR tests are offered by appointment for free to anyone in the community.
Appointments, which can be made by calling (773) 570-6510, are within hourlong windows between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturdays. Individuals should bring a state-issued ID, and minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Updated 2/19/2021 8:27 PM
While other Northwest suburban school districts have returned to full-time in-person learning, Wheeling Township Elementary District 21 officials said this week they can t do that so long as they continue adhering to a 6-foot social distancing standard in classrooms, amid other logistical challenges.
But they said the forthcoming implementation of a districtwide saliva COVID-19 testing program and positive trends in the local virus rate bode well for getting more students back to school for longer periods.
Particularly as it relates to the elementary (schools), moving toward full in-person in full days is predicated on community spread moving back, unless you choose to deviate from the 6 feet, Superintendent Michael Connolly told school board members during a meeting Thursday night. That s the best we can do. And again, I fully acknowledge this will not happen fast enough and it will not happen immediately, and that is very disappointing for many
After revisions, Cook County renters rights ordinance passes unanimously Scott Britton
Updated 1/28/2021 6:45 PM
A renters rights ordinance proposed by a pair of North and Northwest suburban Cook County commissioners won unanimous approval from the full county board Thursday, after a series of negotiations with, and concessions from, groups representing both landlords and tenants.
Chief co-sponsor Commissioner Scott Britton of Glenview said the final 29-page piece of legislation dubbed the Residential Tenant and Landlord Ordinance is the result of 20 hours of meetings with advocacy groups, more than 40 line-item concessions and six comprehensive edits since last July.
Modeled after a 1986 Chicago ordinance, the new county rules limit late rent fees and security deposits, allow renters to withhold rent payments when repairs aren t made or working utilities aren t supplied, and stiffen penalties for lockouts, among other provisions.
How North, Northwest suburban schools could serve as vaccination sites
Wheeling High School could serve as one of a handful of suburban COVID-19 vaccination sites for teachers and others in Phase 1B under a plan submitted to Cook County by Northwest Suburban High School District 214. Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer
Updated 1/22/2021 9:33 PM
A group of North and Northwest suburban high school districts are coordinating efforts to host mass vaccination clinics for their teachers and staffs inside school gymnasiums, but it s up to the Cook County Department of Public Health whether they ll get that chance.
Northwest Suburban High School District 214, Maine Township High School District 207, Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211, Glenbrook High School District 225 and New Trier High School District 203 have applied to host large-scale COVID-19 vaccination sites for their teachers, other school personnel and those of their elementary feeder districts.
Buffalo Grove native heads to White House to join Biden communications team Matt Hill of Buffalo Grove meets up with then-presidential candidate Joe Biden during a Chicago campaign event in November 2019 that Hill helped organize as the campaign s deputy national press secretary. He is now senior associate communications director for President Joe Biden. Courtesy of Matt Hill Matt Hill, front right, with college friends Sarah Hochman and Mitch Dickey, back right, gets a ride in then-Vice President Joe Biden s limousine in April 2015 on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. Courtesy of Matt Hill Matt Hill of Buffalo Grove and his family connect with then-presidential candidate Joe Biden during a Chicago campaign event in November 2019. Family members are Matt Hill, from left, brother Ethan, mother Marla, and sister Megan. Hill, who helped organize the event as a campaign worker, is now senior associate communications director for President J