Good News, Illinois: Love For Grandma, Girl Scout Gifts, More

ACROSS ILLINOIS — There is good news to be found all throughout Illinois despite the ongoing coronavirus crisis, and often because of it. From driveway chalk messages left for a beloved grandmother to nurses raiding their school's personal protective equipment supply to make donations, these Good News, Illinois stories are sure to warm your heart.

Messages of Love Chalked On Grandmother's Driveway

When social distancing kept them from seeing their grandmother, this family knew just what they had to do.

Girl Scouts Donate Cookies To Sweeten Day For Hospital Workers

The Girl Scouts donated hundreds of boxes of cookies to help the hospital staff.

Costume Designer Turns Talents To Mask-Making, Mobilizes Sewists

"We always say, 'community over competition and people before profits,'" said Heather Gray, who's giving back amid the coronavirus pandemic.

School Nurses Raid Stash To Bring Needed PPE To Christ Hospital

After reading on Patch that Advocate Christ had run out of thermometer probe covers, Burbank Dist 111 nurses raided their unused surplus.

North Shore Distillery Makes Hand Sanitizer To Fight Coronavirus

The Rockland Road distillery became the first in the nation to receive FDA approval to produce alcohol-based hand sanitizer last month.

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