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Illinois driver services facilities and Secretary of State departments originally planned to close their doors for the first couple of weeks of this month due to soaring COVID-19 numbers.

The "jumping worm," aka the "crazy worm," aka the "snake worm" has spread to almost half of Illinois counties, including Winnebago, Dekalb, Jo Daviess, and Stephenson.

With the amount of delays and postponements in almost every aspect of our lives that we've had to deal with over the last year, why not add in one more?

You might remember me telling you exactly one week ago that you only had 6 months before the new deadline to get an Illinois REAL ID card. Yeah, well...forget all that.

The Illinois State Police (ISP) are well aware of the incredible backlog of Illinois Firearm Owners Identification Cards (FOID) and concealed-carry licenses (CCL) waiting to be renewed, and because of that, they've given a 150-day extension to those of us who've seen our cards expire.

There was some concern that Illinois wouldn't follow along with the federal government in extending the tax deadline, but at the end of last week, Governor Pritzker decided to get on board the tax deadline extension bandwagon.

Now that you've got masks that match up with all of your different outfits and moods, it would be a real shame to get rid of them wouldn't it? Don't worry. It's not going to happen anytime soon.

The extension now gives FOID card owners and CCL holders (whose card expired after March 9th) eighteen months to renew after Illinois' disaster proclamation ends.

The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) says that several of Illinois' regulated utilities have agreed to another extension to keep residential consumers from being shut off.

With this COVID-19 mess being particularly hard on senior citizens, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White's office is trying to make one part of life a little bit easier.