Carroll County

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Whiteside, Lee and Ogle counties are designated at medium risk for COVID-19 spread.

Cases in Whiteside and Lee counties have more than doubled during the week.

All Sauk Valley counties are listed as low risk for transmission.

All Sauk Valley counties are listed as low risk for transmission.

A warning about damaging winds with gust up to 60 mph has been issued for northern Illinois, the National Weather Service advised.

Lee and Carroll counties had less than 10 cases across the week.

The region’s positivity rate increased to 1.5%.

All Sauk Valley counties are listed as low risk for transmission.

A Thomson prison inmate found unresponsive and pronounced dead by emergency responders is the seventh inmate to die at the maximum security federal lockup in two years.

The region’s positivity rate decreased to 1.6%.

After a seven-day trial, a federal jury in Rockford found a Thomson inmate guilty of attacking and injuring a correctional officer, the U.S. District Attorney’s office said in a news release.

The region is down to 39 total COVID-19 hospitalizations.

The low case trend continues in the Sauk Valley.

Peter J. McClanathan, a Freeport attorney and longtime Republican, is running for circuit judge in the 15th Judicial Circuit, which is comprised of Carroll, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle, and Stephenson counties.