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State Week: Illinois Slows Down In Bid To Limit Coronavirus

Brian Mackey
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NPR Illinois

Illinoisans voted in the primary election as COVID-19 continued its spread across the state.

Sean Crawford hosts with regular panelists Charlie Wheeler and Brian Mackey, and guest Amanda Vinicky of Chicago Tonight, which airs on PBS station WTTW.

State Week | March 20, 2020

Note: This week’s program was recorded before Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a “stay-at-home” order on Friday afternoon.

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Sean has led the NPR Illinois news operations since the fall of 2009.
Brian Mackey formerly reported on state government and politics for NPR Illinois and a dozen other public radio stations across the state. Before that, he was A&E editor at The State Journal-Register and Statehouse bureau chief for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
Amanda Vinicky moved to Chicago Tonight on WTTW-TV PBS in 2017.
Amanda Vinicky
Amanda Vinicky moved to Chicago Tonight on WTTW-TV PBS in 2017.
The director of the Public Affairs Reporting (PAR) graduate program is Professor Charles N. Wheeler III, a veteran newsman who came to the University of Illinois at Springfield following a 24-year career at the Chicago Sun-Times.