State Week: COVID-19 Cases Increase While Tax Revenues Decline




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Summary: This week, rising COVID-19 positivity rates prompted Governor J.B. Pritzker to once again shut down indoor service for restaurants and bars in Will and Kankakee counties, and warned that the same might soon happen for the Metro East counties. Local governments are becoming more worried about declining tax revenues due to the pandemic. And energy company Exelon announced that it may have to close two of its nuclear plants. Jerry Nowicki of Capitol News Illinois and Kelsey Landis of the Belleville