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President Trump has signed a historic $2 trillion economic recovery package into law Friday afternoon, shortly after the House of Representatives approved the bill

WATCH LIVE:  The Pritzker administration is holding a March 27 press briefing on COVID-19 in Illinois at 2:30 pm.

The White House's pandemic task force is scheduled to convene another briefing on Wednesday afternoon amid a tense denouement for legislation aimed at helping an economy poleaxed by the disaster.

In an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, Illinois schools are closed and Governor J.B. Pritzker has issued a stay-at-home order. That's a familiar scenario for two University of Illinois students from Wuhan, China. They went home for Christmas break in December 2019 and haven’t been able to return to classes in Champaign-Urbana.

Advocates and correctional officials are calling on Illinois and other states across the country to release youth from juvenile detention facilities amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The University of Illinois Board of Trustees voted earlier this month to increase health insurance premiums by more than 30 percent for students at its Urbana-Champaign campus.