Illinois Attorney General Tests Positive for COVID-19

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has tested positive for the new coronavirus, his office announced Tuesday. The Chicago Democrat didn’t feel well over the weekend and was tested Monday, his office said. Raoul has been self-isolating since he began experiencing COVID-19 symptoms. He was advised during a telehealth appointment to get tested. Spokeswoman Annie Thompson said the office is “notifying the handful of individuals who have been working in the attorney general’s vicinity in our Thompson Center office so that those individuals can contact their health care providers for medical advice and self-quarantine for 14 days.”