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Illinois sets record for coronavirus cases for third day in a row

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Margaret Orozco pushes her bike to get tested for coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020.

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Phlebotomist Jocelyn Rios administers a drive-thru COVID-19 test in Aurora on Nov. 12, 2020, at a Illinois Department of Public Health test site.

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Alexa Ruiz, 10, gets a COVID-19 test done by health care worker Vicky Bustamante at the Esperanza Health Centers' drive-thru COVID-19 testing pod on Dec. 20, 2021, in Chicago.

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Workers prepare signage for the start of testing at the city's COVID-19 testing site in the parking lot of Dr. Jorge Prieto Math and Science Academy in Chicago on May 18, 2020.

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Jonathan Pierce, a member of the Illinois National Guard, right foreground, trains other members on proper sanitation procedures on May 21, 2020, inside of a tent where COVID-19 testing will begin the following day in Rolling Meadows. The Illinois National Guard set up its 10th testing site outside of Rolling Meadows High School in School District 214.

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Hundreds line up at the drive-thru Illinois Department of Public Health COVID-19 mobile testing location Nov. 11, 2020, at the Arlington International Racecourse in Arlington Heights.

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Cars line up as Tamira Perkins, center, and Kiara Flowers administer a COVID-19 test at a walk-up and drive -thru test site in the Evanston Township High School parking lot on Jan. 3, 2021.

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A worker transports a self-administered COVID-19 test to a storage container at Saucedo Scholastic Academy on Oct. 13, 2020, in Chicago.

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Medical staff peer out from the tents outside before the start of coronavirus testing at the VIDA Wellness Center in Little Village on May 6, 2020.

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Members of the COVID-19 Care team conduct coronavirus antibody testing on the public while they sit in their vehicles in the 2400 block of North Ashland Avenue in Chicago on April 22, 2020.

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Maria Mendoza, a second grade instructor, gets tested for COVID-19 outside of Murphy Elementary School in Chicago on Nov. 4, 2021.

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The Illinois National Guard drive-thru COVDI-19 testing facility in Markham on May 15, 2020.

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Antoinette Ruvalcaba administers her own COVID-19 tests outside of the Chicago Teachers Union on Dec. 30, 2021, in Chicago. Waiting to collect the test and reflected in the window is Samir Anis.

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A worker agitates a nasal swab after administering a COVID-19 test at a walk-up and drive -thru test site in the Evanston Township High School parking lot in Evanston on Jan. 3, 2021.

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Marshall Wade helps Albertine Gibson put on her personal protective equipment as they conduct drive-thru COVID-19 testing at CrossWinds Church in Chicago on Oct. 20, 2020.

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A member of the medical staff at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital's drive-thru COVID-19 testing on March 19, 2020.

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A worker prepares COVID-19 test kits before the opening of the new testing center at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park on Nov. 23, 2020.

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Drive-thru COVID-19 testing at Advocate Lutheran Hospital in Park Ridge on March 18, 2020.

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Health care worker Kelshin Johnson, center, surveys the line of cars waiting at the COVID-19 testing center outside of Arlington International Racecourse on March 31, 2021.

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A health care worker opens a coronavirus test kit at the Edward-Elmhurst Health drive-thru testing center March 20, 2020, in Warrenville.

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Zul Kapadia conducts a COVID-19 test at Prism Heath Lab in Chicago on Aug. 6, 2020. It was the first day of testing at this by-appointment-only site. It's scheduled to run seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Members of CORE, actor Sean Penn's charity, assist drivers arriving for coronavirus testing as CORE runs the coronavirus test site in the parking lot of Dr. Jorge Prieto Math and Science Academy in Chicago on May 18, 2020.

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Keila Ruiz gets her vitals taken by health care worker Jessica Gonzalez at the Epsperanza Health Centers' drive-thru COVID-19 testing pod on Dec. 20, 2021, in Chicago.

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Phlebotomist Tatiana Young places a cotton swab into a tube after administering a nasal COVID-19 test in the parking lot of Foreman Mills Shopping Center in Chicago on Oct. 19, 2020.

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Members of the COVID-19 Care team conduct antibody testing at a station in Chicago on April 22, 2020.

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Registered nurse Anna Reinhart collects a self-administered COVID-19 test at a drive-thru testing site at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago on Oct. 20, 2020.

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Norwegian Hospital nurses perform one of the first half-dozen coronavirus tests on April 28, 2020.

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People in cars line up Jan. 7, 2021 for drive-thru COVID-19 testing at Prosser Career Academy in Chicago.

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Keila Ruiz, 12, helps her baby brother Mateo, 8 months, get tested by health care worker Vicky Bustamante at the Esperanza Health Centers' drive-thru COVID-19 testing pod on Dec. 20, 2021, in Chicago.

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A technician speaks to people arriving for a COVID-19 test on the first day of testing at Access Health Facility in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood on May 4, 2020.

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Nicaya Rapier, from left. nephew Zachary Marshall, 6, and her mother, Yvonne Rapier, conduct self-administered COVID-19 tests at CrossWinds Church in Chicago on Oct. 20, 2020.

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People line up to get tested for COVID-19 as a new testing site opens Nov. 23, 2020, at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park.

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Registered nurse Anna Reinhart holds open a biohazard bags for a patient to drop in their self administered COVID-19 test at a COVID-19 drive-thru testing site at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. What Chicago area hospitals are seeing now, as the second wave builds, and what might happen in the coming weeks. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

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Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside of Heartland Health Center in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

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People line up in their cars at the COVID-19 testing area at Roseland Community Hospital on April 3, 2020, in Chicago.

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Jennifer Lindsley loads several tubes of patient samples to test for COVID-19 at a hospital lab at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago on Oct. 20, 2020.

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A warning sign alerts passersby as vehicles are lined up at a COVID-19 testing site at Saucedo Scholastic Academy on Oct. 13, 2020, in Chicago.

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Personnel direct people to get tested outside a mobile COVID-19 testing site Nov. 9, 2020, at Resurrection Project in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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Jordan K. hands back his COVID-19 test to health care worker Kelshin Johnson, right, at the COVID-19 testing center outside of Arlington International Racecourse on March 31, 2021, in Arlington Heights.

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Public health commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady listens as CPS CEO Pedro Martinez updates the plan to safely return students to class after the winter break at City Hall, Dec. 30, 2021.

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Makayla Triiplett an 8th grader at Deneen Elementary, tests for COVID-19 outside of the Chicago Teachers Union on Dec. 30, 2021, in Chicago. Looking on is tester Martha Arevalo. CPS starts back to school on Monday following their holiday break.

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Medical staff, medical students and RN's meet before the start of coronavirus testing at the VIDA Wellness Center in Little Village on May 6, 2020.

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People line up at the COVID-19 testing area at Roseland Community Hospital on April 3, 2020, in Chicago.

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Jeff Prokash reads "White Pine" while waiting in line for a COVID-19 test in the Kilbourn Park neighborhood on Dec. 22, 2021 in Chicago.

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Personnel direct people to get tested outside a mobile COVID-19 testing site Nov. 9, 2020, at Resurrection Project in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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Paca Kujtim of Arlington Heights self-administers a COVID-19 test in his car at the Arlington International Racecourse on March 31, 2021, in Arlington Heights.

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A man holds a sealed COVID-19 test kit before having it administered at Saucedo Scholastic Academy, 2850 W. 24th Blvd., on Oct. 13, 2020, in Chicago.

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Medical assistant Nancy Avitia walks to a vehicle before administering a drive-thru COVID-19 test outside Innovative Express Care on March 24, 2020.

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A person uses a swab at the Illinois National Guard drive-thru COVID-19 testing facility in Markham on Friday, May 15, 2020.

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Traffic is directed at the crowded Illinois Department of Public Health drive-thru COVID-19 test site in Wheaton on Nov. 12, 2020

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Workers give instructions and collect the swab kits in a drive-through line for COVID-19 testing on July 8, 2020 in the parking lot of Dr. Jorge Prieto Math and Science Academy in Belmont Cragin, one of the city's free test sites.

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Dozens of people wait in line to get tested outside a mobile COVID-19 testing site Nov. 9, 2020, at Resurrection Project in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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Tamira Perkins administers a COVID-19 test at a walk-up and drive -thru test site in the Evanston Township High School parking lot on Jan. 3, 2021.

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Victoria Mandujano, 9, right, answers questions after she gets tested for COVID-19 by Kacey Dayton, a physician assistant, as her sisters Anjelica Mandujano, 15, left, and Amanda Mandujano, 11, look on May 5, 2021, at a drive-thru and walk-up test site at Esperanza Health Centers in Chicago.

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A worker administers a COVID-19 test at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park in DuPage County on Nov. 23, 2020.

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Chicago Department of Health tests and individual outside Vaughn Occupational High School in the Portage Park neighborhood on March 9, 2020. Students and staff at the CPS school are being asked to stay at home after a classroom assistant tested positive with coronavirus.

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CTU workers direct vehicles lined up for COVID-19 testing outside of the Chicago Teachers Union on Dec. 30, 2021, in Chicago. CPS starts back to school on Monday following their holiday break.

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A patient is tested as hundreds line up at the drive-thru COVID-19 mobile testing location Nov. 11, 2020, at the Arlington International Racecourse in Arlington Heights.

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Registered nurse Guadalupe Duran administers a free COVID-19 test to Salvador Santana at a walk-up and drive -thru test site in a parking lot at 6705 South Wentworth Ave. in Chicago, Nov. 6, 2020.

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Dozens of people wait in line to get tested outside a mobile COVID-19 testing site Nov. 9, 2020, at Resurrection Project in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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Members of the Illinois National Guard work at the COVID-19 test site at South Suburban College in South Holland on July 2, 2020.

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Shelley Gavin, 55, gets a free COVID-19 test provided by Community Organized Relief Effort at I Grow Chicago in West Englewood on Aug. 31, 2020.

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Medical personnel at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge wait for patients as they conduct drive-thru COVID-19 testing on March 19, 2020. The Chicago-area hospital system Advocate Aurora Health announced March 20 that it has suspended its drive-up coronavirus testing sites because of a national shortage of test kits and processing materials.

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Samyah Sanders and Khyriah Jordan get nasal swabs for rapid COVID-19 tests on Dec. 30, 2021 at a testing station along Cottage Grove Avenue in Chatham before returning to school next week.

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People cough into their elbows as instructed while conducting self COVID-19 test at Harrison Park in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood on July 24, 2020.

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Brenda Ponce is tested for COVID-19 by Kacey Dayton at a drive-thru and walk-up test site at Esperanza Health Centers in Chicago on May 5, 2021.

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Workers wears protective face masks and gowns at the entrance to a COVID-19 mobile testing site outside Metropolitan Family Services, in the 6400 block of South Kedzie Avenue, Dec. 2, 2020, in Chicago.

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Erika Cardoza, 22 , Gustavo Martinez, 22, and their son Eli, 3, get free COVID-19 tests provided by Community Organized Relief Effort at I Grow Chicago in West Englewood, Aug. 31, 2020.

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Medical assistant Leticia Feliz administers a drive-thru test for COVID-19 at Innovative Express Care on Chicago's North Side on March 24, 2020.

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Pfc. Sabine Gonzalez verifies the identification and personal information of a first responder on March 26, 2020 at the Illinois National Guard coronavirus testing facility on the Northwest Side.

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Keila Ruiz gets her temperature taken by health care worker Jessica Gonzalez at the Epsperanza Health Centers' drive-thru COVID-19 testing pod on Dec. 20, 2021, in Chicago.

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A man disinfects equipment at a COVID-19 testing center at Roseland Community Hospita on April 3, 2020.

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Emergency room nurse Korrine Potter enters the tent that Edward Hospital built in order to test possible coronavirus patients on March 17, 2020, in Naperville. Potter, along with emergency room Dr. Peter Schubel, tested six patients for coronavirus that morning.

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Patricia Pierce swabs her nose at the Illinois Department of Public Health COVID-19 testing site on West 79th Street in Chicago on Nov. 5, 2020.

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Chicago police control traffic for a line of cars waiting while the Illinois National Guard runs a coronavirus testing site for first responders on March 23, 2020.

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Carolyn Smith watches as Anthony Smith gets a nasal swab for a rapid COVID-19 test on Dec. 30, 2021 at a testing station along South Cottage Grove Avenue in Chatham.

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Jorge Mandujano, 3, is held by his sister, Anjelica Mandujano, 15, while being tested for COVID-19 on May 5, 2021, at Esperanza Health Centers in Chicago.

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A health care worker waits for a patient at an outdoor COVID-19 testing center at Roseland Community Hospital, April 3, 2020.

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People line up in their vehicles for COVID-19 testing outside of the Chicago Teachers Union on Dec. 30, 2021, in Chicago.

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A worker packages a COVID-19 test swab from a client at Prism Heath Lab, 2322 W. Peterson Ave., in Chicago, on Aug. 6, 2020.

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Contactless drive-through COVID-19 testing is conducted in a parking lot at 1606 N. Mobile Avenue in Chicago on April 23, 2020.

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Cars line up at a new COVID-19 testing site in employee parking lot B at Midway International Airport, Nov. 24, 2020.

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Justin Reyes carries a sample after administering a COVID-19 test outside of Heartland Health Center in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

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People wait for COVID-19 rapid test results before heading to Lollapalooza at a temporary testing site in the 200 block of South State Street on July 30, 2021, in Chicago.

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Registered Nurse Lupe Duran, of Family Christian Health Center, administers a free COVID-19 test outside Apostolic Faith Church, Aug. 26, 2020 in Chicago.

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Lollapalooza concertgoers walk past a temporary COVID-19 rapid test site in the 200 block of South State Street on July 30, 2021, in Chicago.

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People space themselves out as they participate in walk up testing for coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020.

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People line up outside Howard Brown Health on East 55th Street at Lake Park Avenue in Chicago to get tested for the COVID-19 virus on Dec. 22, 2021.

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A COVID-19 tester retrieves mouth swab samples from a people who received free tests at Harrison Park in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, July 24, 2020.

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Dr. Kyle Ross hands a COVID-19 test through the window of an RV at a rapid testing location in the parking lot of First Presbyterian Church, Nov. 18, 2020, in River Forest.

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Broadway Medical staff set up to test teachers and staff for COVID-19 outside of Murphy Elementary School in Chicago on, Nov. 4, 2021.

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People use a walk-up area at a new COVID-19 testing site in employee parking lot B at Midway International Airport, Nov. 24, 2020.

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Dozens of people wait in line to get tested for the coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020.

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Workers package a COVID-19 test swab from a client at Prism Heath Lab, 2322 W. Peterson Ave., in Chicago, on Aug. 6, 2020.

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Dozens line up for free mouth swab COVID-19 tests at Harrison Park in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood on July 24, 2020.

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Medical technologist Patricia Mangan tests patient samples for COVID-19 in a lab at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago on Oct. 20, 2020.

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Phlebotomist Tina Novick returns a sample after taking a COVID-19 test at the Illinois Department of Public Health drive-thru site in Aurora on Nov. 12, 2020.

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Marisa Massey of Elmwood Park grimaces as Dr. Kyle Ross gives her a rapid COVID-19 test in the parking lot of First Presbyterian Church on Nov. 18, 2020, in River Forest. Event Medical Solutions is conducting the testing, which allows people to get results within one or two hours.

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Dozens of people wait in line to get tested outside a mobile COVID-19 testing site Nov. 9, 2020, at Resurrection Project in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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Tech. Sgt. Nicholas Bobzin takes personal information from a client at the Illinois National Guard drive-thru COVID-19 testing facility at the state emissions testing site in Markham on May 15, 2020.

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Nicaya Rapier, left, helps her nephew, Zachary Marshall, receive a self-administered COVID-19 test from Alexandria Jackson at CrossWinds Church in Chicago on Oct. 20, 2020.

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Medical assistant Leticia Feliz gives a test for COVID-19 outside Innovative Express Care on Chicago's North Side on March 24, 2020.

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Trauma program manager Jennifer Homan packages a swab to be sent for testing as drive-thru COVID-19 tests are performed at Franciscan Health Crown Point on March 17, 2020.

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Dozens of people wait in line to get tested outside a mobile COVID-19 testing site Nov. 9, 2020, at Resurrection Project in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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Helena Coleman, foreground, and Renea Walker take their self-administered COVID-19 tests at the Illinois Department of Public Health testing site on West 79th Street in Chicago on Nov. 5, 2020.

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An antibody test is performed on a driver at a testing station in the 2400 block of North Ashland Avenue in Chicago on April 22, 2020.

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The Illinois National Guard runs a coronavirus testing site for first responders March 23, 2020, at a former vehicle emissions facility on the Northwest Side.

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An aerial view of the Illinois National Guard drive-thru COVID-19 testing facility on the state emissions testing site in Markham on May 15, 2020.

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People wait in line for a COVID-19 test in the Kilbourn Park neighborhood on Dec. 22, 2021 in Chicago.

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A line of cars snakes to a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site Jan. 7, 2021, at Prosser Career Academy in Chicago.

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A man is tested for the coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020.

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People wait in line for a COVID-19 test in the Kilbourn Park neighborhood on Dec. 22, 2021, in Chicago. Illinois public health officials reported 16,581 new COVID cases and 66 deaths Wednesday.

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Free COVID-19 testing on Chicago's State Street on Oct. 10, 2021.

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Zul Kapadia photographs a client's identification card as he conducts COVID-19 test at Prism Heath Lab in Chicago on Aug. 6, 2020. It was the first day of testing at this by-appointment-only site. It's scheduled to run seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.