Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Office of Cook County Clerk Karen A. Yarbrough will begin distributing a record number of mail ballots today to more than 400,000 suburban Cook County voters who have made a request to cast their vote by mail in the November 3 General Election. The Clerk’s Elections Unit[Read More…]
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Drama Group Kicks Off 2020-2021 Season with Live-streamed Play The Voice of the Prairie
Chicago Heights, IL-(ENEWSPF)- While theatres across America remain dark due to CoVid-19, The Drama Group has been working hard to find a way to bring live streaming theatre back to its audience in the Southland. We are proud to kick off our 90th Anniversary season this month. Our new chapter[Read More…]
ICC Urges Utilities to Extend Moratorium on Disconnections through Winter 2021
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Concerned with steady coronavirus infection rates and the approaching cold weather, the Illinois Commerce Commission sent a letter to large state-regulated utilities requesting an extension of the moratorium on residential customer disconnections for non-payment until March 31, 2021. The letter, signed by all five Commissioners, notes that the[Read More…]
Op-Ed: Adolescent Drug Use Online Seminar – 10 Things Parents Can Do
By Danny RomeoSpecial Assistant to State Representative Robert Rita ENEWSPF- The following is an op-ed from State Representative Robert Rita’s Office on Adolescent Drug Use. There’s no way of sugarcoating this, 2020 has been nothing less than catastrophic. The beginning of the year started out positive, we were having extremely[Read More…]
Free Internet Service to School-age Housing Authority Residents across Suburban Cook County
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Housing Authority of Cook County (HACC) and Comcast announced a partnership to provide free in-home, high-speed Internet service to Housing Authority residents with school-age children through the Internet Essentials Partnership Program (IEPP). The service, which will be free of charge to qualifying HACC residents for the 2020-21 school year,[Read More…]
Moratorium on Residential Disconnections Voluntarily Extended Further by Several Utilities
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) announced that several of the state’s regulated electric, natural gas, water and sewer utilities have once again voluntarily agreed to extend the moratorium on disconnections for residential customers. The following companies have agreed to extend the moratorium on disconnections for residential customers[Read More…]
To the Editor: Replace Voting at the Polls with Voting by Mail
ENEWSPF- To the Editor: Voting by mail should replace voting at the polls in its entirety. The two institutions that can definitely be trusted is the County Board of Elections and the United States Postal Service. The money saved by eliminating the need for poll workers could be used to[Read More…]
Early Voting for Cook County Residents Begins Oct. 19 in Park Forest
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Park Forest is set to again have an early voting location. Early voting at Park Forest’s Village Hall is tentatively scheduled to begin Oct. 19 for residents of Cook County. Voters will be required to follow all COVID-19 precautions in place at Village Hall, including the wearing[Read More…]
Cook County Health Patients Experience Major Delays in Mail Deliveries for Daily Medical Prescriptions
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- New data from the mail-order pharmacy at Cook County Health indicates 23% percent of mail-order prescriptions were delayed in July 2020 compared to less than 1% of all Cook County Health mail-order medications in March 2020. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, U.S. Congressmen[Read More…]
Second Annual Racial Equity Week Coming in September to Cook County
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced the second annual Cook County Racial Equity Week, to be held September 14 – 18, 2020. This year’s theme is Cook County Past, Present, and Future: Acknowledging past harm, reckoning with impact today, and casting a vision for our county’s future. “We are[Read More…]
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