The hospitals asked the Legislature for $110 million for fiscal year 2021 and a total of $520 million over five years to offset losses as they created the system and built a hospital. Instead, the legislation created an annual pool of $150 million for hospitals across the state for fiscal years 2021 through 2023. The money won’t be distributed until lawmakers create criteria for providing funds.

Officials confiscated three parcels of Lianhua Qingwen Jiaonang, a Chinese medication falsely advertising to treat the coronavirus. The domestic cost of the medication equates to $28,797.

The state legislature included $50 million in the state capital budget. Recent Chicago public high schools have cost between $75 and $130 million – and building in the area could be extra costly given that the school district does not own land for the school and the real estate prices are high near downtown.

Not included are guidelines for reopening sporting events, bars, religious services, outdoor performances, summer programs and youth activities, the lakefront and museums. Those standards “will be available later in phase three when those entities are predicted to begin reopening,” according to the release.

“We’ve got several issues outside of just the stay at home order,” a West Side alderman said. “Officers have been dispersing locations that have frequent narcotics sales. If you look at other calls for service in those same areas, you’ll see a correlation.”

The Regional Transportation Authority, which oversees CTA, Pace and Metra, anticipates losing $1 billion this year. With revenue dropping to almost nothing in recent weeks and anticipated declines going forward, Metra and Chicago’s other mass transit systems face difficult decisions to cut costs or find new ways to pay the bills.

“Chicago’s complicated zoning laws will continue to stifle the housing market and aggravate population declines, but legislation such as the accessory dwelling unit ordinance can help reverse those trends.”

Brown said his department recovered 216 guns over the weekend, an increase of 68 over the same weekend last year, including several equipped with extended magazines. Police made a total of 86 arrests for gun offenses. Warm temperatures and restless residents also headed outdoors in droves over the weekend, many in defiance of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s stay-at-home order, leading to police issuing 300 group dispersal each day, according to Brown.

The 62 percent drop reflects a big pricing disconnect between buyers and sellers that isn’t likely to be resolved anytime soon.

Lightfoot emphatically denied that a crackdown on overtime pay resulted in 1,000 fewer police officers on the street, and blamed disgruntled cops for spreading that rumor. Still, she said she had told Brown that “this was a fail. Whatever the strategy was, it didn’t work. … This weekend’s violence was out of control.”

Cook County Board members narrowly approved the resolution, which only applies to suburban Cook County, last week following a heated discussion about the effects of the measure on black and Latino communities.

On Tuesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady announced $56 million in funding to train and certify a 600-person workforce to support contact tracing. The city is now accepting requests for proposals from organizations to lead this massive contact tracing effort.

The number of those jailed has dropped about 25 percent in recent months thanks to emergency bond review hearings that have allowed some bail-eligible detainees to be released. But judges have been ordering many detainees to use electronic monitoring devices as a condition for release at the emergency hearings.

“Armed police showing up at a church, pounding on the door to gain entrance, is not the way the American government deals with American churches. It’s not the way a country that guarantees freedom of worship enforces the law.”

“The Chicago Police Department strives to ensure any enforcement of the statewide stay-at-home order is universal regardless of neighborhood, community or district,” the department said in a statement. Police say shots were fired, but no one was hit.

At DePaul, most courses will continue to be taught online; The school also announced plans to reduce density in its residence halls and academic buildings. Northwestern will see some in-classroom instruction in the late summer, before welcoming all students back to class in the fall.

Tourists, like customers of any business in the post-pandemic world, will need to feel confident that the places they visit are run by people who are competent to keep them safe. Public attractions will need to feel clean and not cramped. Hotels will need to advertise sanitation.

“We note that powerful leaders are standing for women, small businesses and all of us in Illinois: the offices of Lieutenant Governor, Chicago Mayor, Cook County Executive, Treasurer, and Clerk, the IL Department of Public Health Director, and IL Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity are all currently led by women who support the lives of Illinoisans through cautious and caring leadership during the pandemic.”

Indeed, it looked like rush hour on the Dan Ryan in downtown Lake Geneva. “Everyone in Illinois is leaving. We have to leave because we can’t stand it anymore. Wisconsin, it’s free, open. We were here yesterday too because we can’t do anything in our state,” said Robin Anderson.