State to get $13 billion from federal government
Illinois expects to get more than $13 billion from the federal government to be split between the state and local governments.
President Joe Biden announced the U.S. Treasury is sending out $350 billion to state and local governments as part of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief measure enacted earlier this year. Illinois state government is in line for $7.5 billion.
Local governments will share $5.7 billion.
Vaccination teams head to Illinois workplaces
Vaccination teams will soon be dispatched to workplaces across Illinois.
The effort will begin this month with 10 sites in Chicago, Rockford and Schaumburg in the first wave of the program before branching out throughout Illinois.
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A huge cache of internal emails from City Hall was hacked by a third party and made public Friday, revealing the inner workings of Mayor
Lori Lightfoot’s administration in Chicago.
The select group of emails had been given to the Jones Day law firm as part of an inquiry into how the police raid on Anjanette Young’s home had been handled. The law firm transferred them to a third party as part of that investigation using a data software service when the emails were swiped. “The breach . at no time involved or impacted the city’s computers or computer system,” according to a statement from the city.
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Free vaccine clinics will be set up at some of Chicago s largest office buildings in the coming weeks as officials work to boost a declining vaccination rate while encouraging workers to come back downtown.
Vaccines will initially offered at 10 sites in Chicago, Schaumburg and Rockford as part of a partnership with the Building Owners and Managers Association, Walgreens and local unions like SEIU. Front desk, custodial, security and building engineers can sign up for appointments in advance, and walk-ins are available for others working in the building plus anyone else who wants a shot. Other building operators who want to host clinics can contact the state’s department of public health or BOMA to get set up at no cost.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot joined forces with Walgreens to announce that vaccination clinics will open at 10 major office buildings, seven of them in downtown Chicago. The others will be in Rockford, with two locations, and Schaumburg. Clinics will be open during shift changes to capture the greatest number of employees.
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Before the stay-at-home shutdown triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, more than 600,000 employees worked at Chicago’s impressive array of downtown office buildings.
They’re starting to trickle back to work, but the key to opening up the floodgates is getting even more employees vaccinated by bringing the vaccine to those workplaces.
Illinois establishing office building vaccination clinics
May 10, 2021
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1of11Mayor Lori Lightfoot discusses Chicago s vaccination efforts during a news conference at the Harris Bank Building in the Loop, Monday, May 10, 2021, in Chicago, as Gov. J.B. Pritzker looks on, background right. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)Ashlee Rezin Garcia/APShow MoreShow Less
2of11Mayor Lori Lightfoot discusses Chicago s vaccination efforts during a news conference at the Harris Bank Building in the Loop, Monday, May 10, 2021, in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)Ashlee Rezin Garcia/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of11Gov. J.B. Pritzker smiles while discussing Chicago s vaccination efforts during a news conference at the Harris Bank Building in the Loop, Monday, May 10, 2021, in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)Ashlee Rezin Garcia/APShow MoreShow Less