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Subscribe This afternoon will be mostly cloudy, with a chance of flurries, and a high near 36 degrees. Tonight’s low will be around 30 degrees. Tomorrow will be the same: cloudy with a high near 35 degrees. Top story Illinois’ coronavirus case tally eclipsed 1 million today as state public health officials announced 8,757 more people have contracted COVID-19. A total of 1,008,045 infections have been diagnosed across the state since early March. That’s an average of about 3,316 new cases per day or about one person infected every 26 seconds. It also means roughly one in every 13 Illinois residents has carried COVID-19 at some point during the pandemic almost 8% of the state population of 12.7 million. Experts agree thousands of additional cases likely have gone undetected over the past 10 months. ....