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Tier Three Resurgence Mitigations to Take Effect Statewide Friday Following Sharp Increase in COVID-19 Cases

As State Reports Record-Breaking Daily Case Totals and Hospitalizations, New Mitigations Aimed at Saving Lives, Protecting Economy, and Preventing Another Stay at Home Order; “Tier 3 boils down to this: if you don’t need to do it, don’t.” – Gov. Pritzker Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- With a new wave of COVID-19 surging[Read More…]

Robert W. Panton, MD

Illinois Doctors Support New Illinois COVID-19 Safety Measures

Warning, “If no action is taken we are on a trajectory that more people will get sick, deaths will increase and our health care delivery system will quickly become overrun,” Illinois State Medical Society President Robert W. Panton, M.D. issued a statement Tuesday supporting Governor J.B. Pritzker’s new COVID-19 safety[Read More…]

The VOLO health assessment survey

Marian Catholic Employs Health Assessment App Every Day

All students and staff are required to use VOLO Health Self-Assessment App Chicago Heights, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Every student, every staff member, every day: on Tuesday, September 8, Marian Catholic added another tool to its COVID-19 Health & Safety Procedures: the VOLO Health Self-Assessment app. Students and staff have used the app[Read More…]

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Park Forest Students Make 1st Quarter Honor Roll at Marian Catholic

Chicago Heights, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Twenty-one students from Park Forest are among students who made the 1st Quarter Honor Roll at Marian Catholic High School. These Scholars with a Soul are: Aamaiya-Hope Adebayo, Brandon Burks II, Hollyn Chastain, Zoe Darvive, Jonathan Dickman, David Douglas Jr., Grant Durham, Ashton Edmond, Jocelyn Ferreira, Evan[Read More…]

Wear A Mask Park Forest Police say

Park Forest Police Blotter Reports Through September 1, 2020

Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- These police reports include arrests through September 1, 2020. Charges for those include one arrest on a domestic battery charge and three others who received municipal citations. Please note that we repeatedly say “according to police” in these reports and often use the word “allegedly.” We are[Read More…]

Gary Kopycinski, Kopy's Kolumn, here's looking at you

The COVID-19 Surge: Hospitals Full & Morgues Overflowing If You Won’t Wear a Mask

Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- In August, I interviewed a friend I hadn’t spoken with in over 35 years. We graduated college together. I’m happily teaching, and Tim Angelotti has his MD PhD., currently an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine (ICU) at the Stanford University Medical Center. Tim makes[Read More…]

Illinois COVID-19

COVID-19: 96 IL Counties & Chicago at Warning Level – Latest Numbers in Region Disturbing

Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- All but six counties in Illinois are at warning level for coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. That puts ninety-six counties, plus the city of Chicago, at warning level, leaving the state primed for yet another lockdown to keep our hospitals, already stressed, from filling up. And to save lives. All[Read More…]

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