The governor reported the first COVID-19-related death today, a woman in Chicago in her 60s with underlying health conditions who was in contact with another COVID-19 case.

In addition, the governor and public health officials revealed that the long-term care facility in DuPage County where one case was previously reported is home to a total of 22 confirmed cases: 18 residents and 4 staff.

Dr. Ezike of IDPH stressed the importance of social distancing and limiting unneeded travel. She said these nursing home residents were sitting in what is their home “and the virus was brought into them.”

The latest statewide count is 160 confirmed cases in 15 counties. Public health officials said as testing capability expands, new confirmed cases will rise in the coming days.

There is a small amount of good news. Dr. Ezike said the first two positive cases have cleared quarantine and returned to their normal lives and she believes the same will be happening soon for the third and fourth positive cases.

Dr. Ezike also said if any health care facilities are facing a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) to speak up so officials can attempt to do something about it.

Pritzker bluntly called on the federal government to expand testing, calling their efforts "an incredible failure."

"The federal government is monopolizing supplies and not providing them to the states," he said. "They set deadlines and blew through them. They told us capacity would be increased and it hasn't."

Pritzker announced that his administration will file for statewide eligibility in a federal loan program for small businesses facing financial hardship.

Pritzker also shot back at the Chicago Board of Elections for their criticism of his refusal to postpone the election, saying he lacks the authority to take such unilateral action.

Attorney General Kwame Raoul spoke about price gouging of medical and sanitary supplies, as well as hoarding of food or other supplies throughout the state. Raoul said his office is investigating and will take action against price gouging, and repeated the entreaty that other officials have made in recent days not to act selfishly in procuring supplies. He also told Illinoisans to beware of scams involving fake cures for COVID-19,​ reiterating what medical professionals have said: That there is as yet no cure or vaccine and claims to the contrary are aimed at exploiting the vulnerable.

"The most important thing the public can do to assist us is to report incidents of price gouging to us," Raoul said.