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Rate of deaths, illness among black residents alarms cities

by Associated Press
| April 6, 2020 2:27 PM

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's mayor pledged an aggressive public health campaign aimed at the city's black and brown communities Monday amid alarm that an overwhelming number of African American residents were among the people to die of COVID-19 in early data.

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