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FILE - In this March 19, 2020, file photo, Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at City Hall in Chicago. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced that he was delaying enforcement of all eviction orders until April 30. During a televised address, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked property owners to "show grace" with tenants. "No one needs the added stress of evictions, certainly not now," she said. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune via AP, File)

FILE - In this March 19, 2020, file photo, Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at City Hall in Chicago. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced that he was delaying enforcement of all eviction orders until April 30. During a televised address, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked property owners to "show grace" with tenants. "No one needs the added stress of evictions, certainly not now," she said. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune via AP, File)

March 20, 2020

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As virus grips nation, advocates move to halt evictions

NEW YORK (AP) — On the day after the coronavirus outbreak was declared a global pandemic, Joe Ferguson was given a batch of court-ordered evictions to carry out in his job as constable in Tucson, Arizona.