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Georgia Gee, Stabile Center Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism School

The Trump Administration told an Illinois health department to leave Rochelle Foods alone. Then a second COVID-19 outbreak struck the plant.

By Derek Kravitz, Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Georgia Gee, Stabile Center Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism School, Madison McVan, Investigate Midwest and Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY Network Agriculture Data Fellow, Investigate Midwest
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The Trump Administration told an Illinois health department to leave Rochelle Foods alone. Then a second COVID-19 outbreak struck the plant.

Confidential coronavirus outbreak data shows undisclosed incidents at prisons, workplaces, schools, meatpacking plants across Illinois

By Georgia Gee, Stabile Center Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism School, Derek Kravitz, Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Sky Chadde, Investigate Midwest
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Three people in white jackets and blue hard hats stand in front of cattle carcasses at a meatpacking plant assembly line.

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