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Governor JB Pritzker

From the beginning, we've used encouragement and education to get businesses to follow our public health guidance. But unfortunately, some business owners refuse or don’t want to follow the rules,

Today marks the third day in a row for Regions 7 and 8 to report a rolling positivity average of 8% or above. That means that starting on Friday, four

Beginning today, the Metro East region will operate under stricter mitigations. These are not decisions I make lightly, but they are necessary ones to slow the rate of infection across

The #covid19 pandemic, which once seemed tame in Carbondale and throughout this region, is now surging here. It’s worse than Chicago. If we don’t see some change here, the virus

I'm testifying before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security on our national response to the worsening coronavirus pandemic. Tune in now:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsinAGELHvA When it became clear that #COVID19 was not

I feel compelled to use this platform to address what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis – and to Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, and Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, and Christian

We've been watching the trends of our health metrics that show when we can move forward: positivity rate below 20%, stable hospitalizations & hospital bed availability above 14%.There's great news:

While there is more work to be done, progress has happened here in Springfield. In just four days, ambitious legislation was passed that invests in core priorities and continues to

The damage this virus has done to jobs & businesses has been devastating. From early on, we've worked to support our residents and small businesses: Residential eviction ban Rent &

Since the outbreak of #COVID19, I’ve taken into consideration a variety of models from researchers across the world, some of which you’ve seen in the public sphere – and in

My team & I are continuously looking at hospitalization data as we adjust resources in our battle with #COVID19. All of this information—including regional breakdowns—is available to the public at

I want to review our latest updates on hospitalization rates and ventilator data as well as what these numbers might mean in the larger context of our curve. Illinois' doubling