The Illinois House Redistricting Committee held its first hearing last week on new congressional and judicial subcircuit district maps at the Michael Bilandic Building in Chicago. Another half-dozen hearings were
Cogs and Corsets: A Steampunk Happening Event Co-Chairs Cathy Sutliff, left, and Candace Summers
is happening June 4-5 in downtown Bloomington.
For Event co-chair Candace Summers, the timing couldn’t be better.
“This is probably one of the first major outdoor festival-type activities that the community has had (since the pandemic began),” Summers said. “A lot of us are vaccinated, getting vaccinated, we’re seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, so I really think it s a way to kind of celebrate that we’re making it through it.”
Making it through, but not totally out of the woods yet so the event will look a little different this year.
PEORIA â In a historic moment, health care workers in Chicago and Peoria on Tuesday became the first groups in Illinois to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, marking what Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike called âthe beginning of the endâ of the pandemic.
The vaccine, developed by the drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech, was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week and is now being shipped throughout the United States. Early studies have shown that after two doses that are given 21 days apart, the vaccine is 95% effective in preventing the disease.
PEORIA â In a historic moment, health care workers in Chicago and Peoria on Tuesday became the first groups in Illinois to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, marking what Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike called âthe beginning of the endâ of the pandemic.
The vaccine, developed by the drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech, was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week and is now being shipped throughout the United States. Early studies have shown that after two doses that are given 21 days apart, the vaccine is 95% effective in preventing the disease.