Some who’ve tried ahead of being ordered back to school buildings Wednesday have been denied.

But there are problems. Supplies are running far behind demand and Cook County Public Health Committee chairman Dennis Deer says many in the Black community fear that this program is like the Tuskegee experiment of the 1930s when Black sharecroppers were secretly injected with syphilis after being promised free healthcare.

Both Mayor Lightfoot and Dr. Allison Arwady say the COVID-19 metrics are moving in the right direction

Republicans oppose DC statehood because it would probably lead to two more Democratic U.S. Senators.