In response to questions, the Illinois Department of Public Health said that it is bound by state and federal laws designed to protect the identity of those infected. “Another consideration is the fact that people may not have become infected at the business location,” said department spokesman Melaney Arnold.

“Looking for what real presidential leadership looks like? Visit our capital city of Springfield to see Honest Abe’s home, an adjective that will never be used to describe you,” Pritzker tweeted.

“Wirepoints reports Illinois set to borrow from Fed’s “lender of last resort” facility a second time… The MLF (Municipal Liquidity Fund) is for states and municiplaitioes that cannot raise money due to Covid. Finances, not Covid are the problem in Illinois.”

Nearly 800 coaches responded to the survey, which collected data on contact days (supervised practices, basically) during this pandemic. Only two coaches reported an outbreak of three to five total cases.

“It’s like buying a car, and then saying like, ‘Oh, you get too good of a deal. Can you give us some money back,'” said Becky DelGeorge. She said she lost a job in the event planning industry.

“A new progressive tax would send the state into New Jersey and New York territory….[Illinois’] proposed slate of new individual income tax rates, along with a corporate tax hike tied to the same ballot measure, would drop the state’s rank overall to 47th. That would move Illinois into Dante’s ninth ring of tax hell, ahead of only New Jersey, New York and California”

“Down here in Region 4, I promise you, I was here, I go to all these counties, I worked in these counties, the overwhelming majority of the small business owners did not close down,” attorney Thomas DeVore said. “The governor doesn’t want you to know that. He won’t tell you that. But that’s the truth because I am here.”

“As we have discussed numerous times, markets, opportunities and business plans can and often need to change,” Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. Secretary Melissa Hughes said in a letter. “I have expressed to you my commitment to help negotiate fair terms to support Foxconn’s new and substantially changed vision for the project.”

“As we did during the H1N1 response, for those of us that were around to remember it, at some point we had so much vaccine available and the demand for it became really low,” Illinois Department of Public Health Dr. Carla Little said. “So we may see something similar here as well.”

Supporters of changing the state’s flat income tax to one with higher rates on higher earners used a fake Twitter account to promote the progressive tax. They tweeted from @Liz_Uihlein, whose family owns one of the largest companies in Illinois.

“Children get their academic comprehension, but they are also getting their confidence in what it means to be a growing person, in a new environment – in this thing we call school,” said Dr. Christopher Span, education historian from the University of Illinois.

State Representative Delia Ramirez (D-Chicago) said, “Communities across the country are calling for an end to the celebration of Christopher Columbus because to most Native and Indigenous people, he is a symbol of genocide. Illinois must respond to this call.”

“What is certain is Tribune readers who write to us representing both sides of the issue are a smart, caring, engaged bunch. We’ll continue publishing our daily letters section. But with Election Day approaching and early voting underway, we are dedicating extra space on the editorial page to publish more of your arguments.”

East St. Louis and neighboring Washington Park have 200 or less residential fixed internet connections per 1,000 households, the lowest rate in St. Clair County. Primarily white and more upscale communities such as Belleville and O’Fallon have at least 800 residential internet connections per 1,000 households.