
New COVID-19 Coronavirus Testing Stations now open
The Illinois Department of Public Health will open a Testing Site in the Town of Cicero for Coronavirus at 34th and Laramie.
The testing will be conducted daily beginning immediately through Sunday, June 28th, from 9 am to 5 pm.
– type of swab: simple nasal swab
– No cost to be tested.
– Residents should bring their insurance card if they have one, but no one will be turned away for lack of insurance.
– Residents do need a phone number where they can be reached with their results.
– Residents do need a phone number where they can be reached with their results.
– Interpretation services are available at each site.
– Anyone can be tested. You do not need to be symptomatic or have been contact traced. Frontline workers, first responders, those who have been involved in demonstrations, protests, or other large gatherings, and those that live in dense housing are particularly encouraged to get tested!
IDPH is responding to the concerns expressed by Town President Larry Dominick, Health Commissioner Sue Grazzini, and State Rep. Lisa Hernandez to the Governor that not enough was being done.
Prism Labs is now working with District 99 to also set up COVID-19 testing at the Unity School parking lot that will continue through a yet unspecific ending date in September. District 99 Supt. Rudy Hernandez is working with the state on the school site.
