After over 1.5 million COVID-19 tests at ten community-based testing sites in Illinois, officials are shutting them down as demand sharply drops. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced on Friday that operations at all ten community-based COVID-19 testing sites will end on March 31. The drive-thru sites were established in April 2020. Testing […]
Tag: testing site
Posted inState News
Illinois attorney general says Centers for Testing Control to be shut down for ‘foreseeable future’
The Illinois attorney general announced the Center for COVID Control, which operated testing sites in Lake and McHenry counties, will remain closed as an investigation is underway into the company. On Wednesday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced he had filed a lawsuit against Illinois-based Center for COVID Control and their associated lab, Doctors Clinical […]
Posted inLocal News
Vaccination clinic for Waukegan and North Chicago seniors opens; mobile testing unit coming to Lake County
A temporary COVID-19 vaccination clinic for senior citizens who live in North Chicago and Waukegan opened Monday morning and the state’s mobile testing unit is coming back to Lake County this week. A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place Monday morning at the Greenbelt Cultural Center, located at 1215 Green Bay Road in North Chicago. The center […]
Posted inLocal News
New drive-thru COVID-19 testing site opens in Antioch
A drive-thru coronavirus testing site has opened up for the public, by appointment only, at an urgent care facility in Antioch. PromptMed Urgent Care said they have converted their Antioch clinic, located at 420 East Route 173, into a drive-thru testing site available to everyone who is experiencing upper respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough […]