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In this April 1, 2020 photo, Betsy and David Sheen are joined by their dogs as they walk up their driveway after getting the mail at their home in Bowdoinham, Maine. The driveway walks help them to get exercise while dealing with the isolation brought on by the coronavirus. Rural states with older populations like Maine are facing special problems in dealing with the emotional and physical toll of isolation. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Older states grapple with fear, isolation and medical care

By DAVID SHARP - Associated Press

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wears a mask as she attends a news conference in Hall A of the COVID-19 alternate site at McCormick Place in Chicago, Friday, April 10, 2020. The &quot;alternative care facility&quot; is designed to relieve pressure on city hospitals from rapidly mounting COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Chicago mayor takes hard line fighting coronavirus outbreak

By KATHLEEN FOODY and DON BABWIN - Associated Press

In this April 9, 2020, photo, amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, Dallas ISD police officers Mylon Taylor, left, and Gary Pierre push a car that ran out of gas while waiting in line for the weekly school meal pick up for students in Dallas. The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled big-box retailers and mom and pop shops worldwide may be making a dent in illicit business, too. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Crime drops around the world as COVID-19 keeps people inside

By STEFANIE DAZIO and FRANKLIN BRICENO and MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

In this March 31, 2020 file photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the USTA Indoor Training Center. On April 11, 2020, Mr. de Blasio announced the city's public schools would remain closed through the end of the academic year. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File) **FILE**

What you need to know today about the virus outbreak

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

This image from undated video provided by the Office of Cook County Board President shows set-up for the Cook County Medical Examiner's surge center in Chicago. The county is preparing new places to store bodies from a possible surge that could overwhelm hospital morgues. (Office of Cook County Board President via AP)

Thousands of patient beds ready at Chicago convention center

By DON BABWIN and KATHLEEN FOODY - Associated Press

A woman sits as she smokes in downtown Chicago, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. It's gorgeous outside but please behave. No end is in sight for the stay-at-home order as Chicagoans fight summer weather temptations. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Virus prompts Cook County to open warehouse to store bodies

By DON BABWIN - Associated Press

This Date in Baseball

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In this April 7, 2020, photo, Erica Harris, right, and her daughter Jordan, wear their protective masks as they walk back home after getting a lunch and homework from the child’s school on Chicago’s Southside in Chicago. As the coronavirus tightened its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population, black Americans. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Outcry over racial data grows as virus slams black Americans

By KAT STAFFORD and MEGHAN HOYER and AARON MORRISON - Associated Press

John Prine performing at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

John Prine dies from coronavirus

By Michael Warren - Associated Press

Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces the &quot;We Are Not Playing&quot; campaign during a press conference at Soldier Field, Monday morning, April 6, 2020, in Chicago. The city is launching a health campaign focused on the city's black and brown communities, following a media report highlighting the disproportionate number of black residents among those who have died of COVID-19 complications in the city. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Rate of deaths, illness among black residents alarms cities

By KATHLEEN FOODY - Associated Press

Chicago opens shelters for newly homeless in virus crisis

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UIC gets grant to address early childhood teacher shortage

By Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 3, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump arrives to speak about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump, ‘wartime’ pandemic leader or ‘backup’?

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

An employee from Arbor food management services puts on gloves before providing meals to be picked up for students, families, and members of the community in Niles, Ill., Wednesday, April 1, 2020. Districts 63 and 207 provide meals each week for all children under the age of 18 during school closure from the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Suit seeks Illinois inmates’ release due to coronavirus

By MICHAEL TARM and KATHLEEN FOODY - Associated Press

This image released by CBS shows host Wayne Brady on the set of the gameshow &quot;Let's Make a Deal.&quot; Shut-in television viewers tuned in to the game show “Let’s Make a Deal” in record numbers last week. The Nielsen company said the show recorded its best week in the 11 years since it was revived by CBS with Wayne Brady as host. (Monty Brinton/CBS via AP)

Shut-in TV viewers push ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ to record rating

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press

A Lawrence Memorial Hospital nurse works at a drive-thru virus testing facility In Lawrence, Kan., Thursday, March 26, 2020. Tests are by appointment only. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Coronavirus hot spots grow in middle America

By Kat Stafford and Martha Irvine - Associated Press

Chicago residents call for rent freeze during pandemic

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An elderly woman stands in a window in a poor area of Bucharest, Romania, Friday, March 27, 2020 as authorities try to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, one of the measures being forbidding people over 65 years of age to leave their homes, except for a two hour interval. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

‘Off the charts’: Virus hot spots grow in middle America

By KAT STAFFORD and MARTHA IRVINE - Associated Press

In this March 22, 2020, file photo U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams attends a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, in Washington. Chicago is among several large American cities identified as hot spots for COVID-19 infections and will see the number of local coronavirus cases rise, the U.S. surgeon general said Friday, March 27, 2020, on &quot;CBS This Morning.&quot; Adams warned that Detroit, Chicago and New Orleans &quot;will have a worse week next week.&quot; (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Surgeon general: Chicago among ‘hot spot’ cities for virus

By KATHLEEN FOODY and JOHN O'CONNOR - Associated Press