The State of Illinois has announced twenty-two winners from across the state for Friday's COVID Vaccine Lottery. Each winner will get $100K for getting life-saving protection by receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine. One resident was chosen locally from the Wayne Co area. All Illinois residents who receive the vaccine will be entered for a chance to win $1 million grand prizes. Residents must receive their shots by August 18th to be eligible to win. For more information visit vaccines.gov. Illinois is reporting 1,457,687 cases of the virus in the state with a Positivity 7-Day Rolling Average Case Positivity 5.1%, and Test Positivity at 5.9%. 11,476 variant cases have been reported. Confirmed Deaths are currently 23,594, with Probable Deaths at 2,498. To date Illinois has performed a total of 27,609,781 tests and administered 13,510,873 doses of the vaccine. The Flora School Board met in special session Thursday night. The board approved maintained the previously adopted return to school