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Where are you in the vaccine line? We charted out who is eligible and who is not in as much detail as we could find.

With around half of Illinois’ population eligible to be vaccinated for COVID-19, the report card for the state’s effort is mixed. Now in the second part of phase 1b, those older than 65 as well as people from a range of occupations — police officers to grocery store workers to some in manufacturing and more — are eligible to receive the vaccine. Access for people with high-risk conditions such as diabetes and lung disease just opened up this week. The city of Chicago, Skokie, and Cook, Lake, DuPage and Will counties’ health departments have said they do not plan to start vaccinating people under 65 with health conditions Thursday because of limited vaccine supplies.

When Illinois enters phase 1c, the Illinois Department of Health estimates 900,000 more essential workers will be eligible. That will include large groups of restaurant workers, construction workers, accountants, lawyers and other types of workers.

IDPH didn’t provide estimates on workers by industry, so the Tribune looked at the number of Illinois employees in the sectors identified by the state using the same Bureau of Labor Statistics data set the state said it used.

The Tribune charted all of the vaccine groups by phase to give a little more context to just who might be next in line for the vaccine.

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A previous version of this story omitted law enforcement officers and 911 dispatchers from the label with 52,000 firefighters in Phase 1b. Also, lawyers and those who work for law firms were originally left off of Phase 1c. BLS data estimates 70,000 in Illinois. Those essential workers have been added back to the chart.