Chicago decay

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Those who get vaccinated at the event will also receive free tickets to an upcoming Chicago Fire game. Polish and Bulgarian translators will be available at the event, which is from p. While federal officials are sounding alarm bells about the Delta variant of coronavirus, officials in Chicago say that other strains of the virus have caused significantly more cases of COVID in the area.

Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, says that the Delta variant, which was first detected in India, has caused around a dozen cases of the virus in the city of Chicago. It is replacing the B. More on the Delta variant and Chicago's metrics. Chicago hit a major milestone Tuesday in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, according to health officials, reporting less than average daily COVID cases. She called the downturn in cases an "exponential decay" after what had been a steady upward trajectory in COVID data prior to the release of vaccines.

Could reopening mark the return of colds and other illnesses that nearly disappeared or largely decreased during the coronavirus pandemic. Allison Arwady said Tuesday during a Facebook Live. And so I think in general, as people do stop wearing masks, perhaps stop being so careful about hand washing, we probably will see some of the other viruses for which we do not vaccinate, that And it's certainly something that that we'll be paying attention to.

Mark Loafman, chair of family and community medicine for Cook County Health, told NBC Chicago "we absolutely do" anticipate an increase in colds, flu and other illnesses going forward. More on this story. One of the great modern myths of big city America is that Chicago is some sort of successful town and a role model for others. By any traditional performance standards Chicago has failed. Like many old, big industrial cities, Chicago peaked in the Census with a population of 3,, In the s over two percent of the entire U.

The , , , and Census numbers showed Chicago losing population. Mayor Daley and Chicago residents were quite excited about the Census showing Chicago gaining over , people a growth rate at half the national average for the s.

It appears the s were an anomaly for Chicago. Since the year , according to Census estimates, Chicago again continued its population decline with a loss of 63, from to leaving a total of 2,, The white flight out of Chicago continued with , non- Hispanic white people leaving Chicago from to 2, African-Americans, for the first time, began leaving Chicago with a net loss of 5, The population gain in Chicago during the s was due to Hispanics. One of the great fables urban lovers of Chicago like to talk about is some comeback of the city.

The comeback, according to this urban legend, involves white families staying in Chicago to raise their children. What is even more pronounced is the lack of white children in the public school system. The entire Chicago Public School System is only 9 percent white. Not a single public high school has a population that is majority white. Not one. Daley said Thursday, setting the stage for the biggest wave of school closings in decades. Officials contend of neighborhood elementary schools are from half to more than two-thirds empty because enrollment has declined by 41, students in the last seven years.

A tentative CPS plan calls for up to 50 under-used schools to close, consolidate with other schools or phase out over the next five years. Most of the underused schools are on the South and West Sides, often where the student population is largely African-American, and in lakefront neighborhoods that include Lincoln Park, Lake View, Uptown and North Center.

The Chicago Tribune reported on February 27, Now, the system has schools and fewer than , students. Over the last decade statewide, the number of Catholic schools has dropped from in to this year, according to figures released at the conference.

Mayor Daley sent his children to private schools. The vaccinations are free and do not require insurance. In Illinois, about 5. Across the state, 42, vaccine doses are being administered per day, based on a seven-day rolling average. Illinois and Chicago have administered at least 11,, vaccine doses of the 13,, provided to them. City data shows more than 1. About Among Chicagoans 65 and older, 70 percent have gotten at least one dose, while The most recent coronavirus victims included four people from Cook County, including two men in their 40s.

At least 22, people have died from COVID in Illinois, and another 2, deaths are probably related to the virus, according to the state. The state reported cases since Monday. That brings the total number of confirmed cases in Illinois up to 1,, The figure represents the percentage of people testing positive among recent tests.