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Coping with COVID: State offers aid for childcare providers, masks for state workforce

The state announces a new aid program to help childcare providers hurt by the pandemic. The state will provide masks for workers. More big business are requiring masks in all stores. State records lowest one-day death tally since mid-March. H-F deaths remain unchanged.

Aid for childcare providers. Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) announced on Friday that $270 million in funding is available to assist child care providers across the…

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