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In addition to the prizes, 20 $150,000 scholarships will be awarded to Illinois college students throughout the lottery, with winners announced weekly through Aug. 26. The first three scholarship winners are from Chicago and DeKalb and Cook counties, according to IDPH.
Names of the prize recipients were not immediately revealed and won t be without the consent of the winners, per the contest rules.
On Aug. 12, 22 winners from regional drawings will be picked. Two winners will be drawn from each of the 11 regions in Gov. JB Pritzker’s Restore Illinois reopening plan. Sangamon County is in Region 3 along with other parts of west-central Illinois.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday encouraged Americans who have not yet been vaccinated against COVID-19 to get their shots to protect themselves from the widely-spreading, highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus. Bryan Wood reports.
A short-lived remarkable event of no new COVID-19 deaths being recorded in Illinois on Monday was followed by the highest daily death count highest total in weeks.
The Illinois Department of Public Health on Monday preliminarily recorded no new COVID-19 deaths, the first time no additional deaths were recorded in a daily count since March 2020.
But IDPH then recorded 16 and six new deaths on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, with Tuesday s count being the highest daily death count since June 24.
A short-lived remarkable event of no new COVID-19 deaths being recorded in Illinois on Monday was followed by the highest daily death count highest total in weeks.
The Illinois Department of Public Health on Monday preliminarily recorded no new COVID-19 deaths, the first time no additional deaths were recorded in a daily count since March 2020. IDPH then recorded 16 and six new deaths on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, with Tuesday s count being the highest daily death count since June 24.
Sangamon County Department of Public Health director Gail O Neil said it has been weeks since a death was recorded in the county. Forty-eight new COVID-19 cases were recorded in Sangamon County between Saturday and Wednesday, per county public health reports.
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