COVID cases in Illinois over sixty thousand

Posted on May 4, 2020
Gov. Pritzker during a COVID-19 press briefing. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)

 

By Dave Dahl

Illinois is up to 61,499 coronavirus cases and 2,628 deaths.

Also from Sunday’s daily briefing from Gov. JB Pritzker, there is good news for people who do not have bank accounts. “The Illinois Department of Professional and Financial Regulation has announced a partnership with Illinois banks to allow non-customers to cash their stimulus checks for free,” said the governor. “One in five Illinois households are under- or unbanked.”

And what about those sad grads in the Class of 2020? “Look,” said Pritzker, “I am as concerned as anybody to make sure that people have something to celebrate their graduations. It’s a sad fact that seniors – high school and college seniors – are not going to have a usual graduation, so we want something special for everybody. The Illinois State Board of Education has put out guidelines for that.”

The governor also assured Illinoisans that the “contact tracers,” who will attempt to determine just where the virus has gone and is going, will not have the authority to arrest people.

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