55 more deaths from COVID-19 in Illinois
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CHICAGO - Illinois health officials on Thursday said another 55 people have died from the coronavirus, raising the state’s death toll to 6,537.
Another 593 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 bring the statewide total to nearly 135,000, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
The new deaths in Cook County range in age between a woman in her 20s and a woman who was more than 100 years old, according to state health officials.