Those who do go out are encouraged to wear a face mask at all times, she said.ĭuring a webcast, Chicago public health commissioner Dr. As part of her stay-at-home advisory, Lightfoot is encouraging residents not to leave their homes except to work, attend school, seek medical care, shop for groceries or pick up takeout food. While stopping short of issuing a citywide shutdown order, Lightfoot also is urging residents to stay home during the coming weeks. Associated Press 12:45 p.m.: Mayor Lori Lightfoot imposes 10-person limit on weddings, funerals and other events, encourages people to stay home as coronavirus cases continue spikeĪs coronavirus cases in Chicago continue to spike, Mayor Lori Lightfoot will impose a 10-person limit on weddings, birthday parties, funerals and some social events starting Monday morning. If we had not been around people with COVID, we would not have been tested.” “After all these long months, I thought we’d never get it. “Dick and I tested positive for COVID,” she wrote. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that it obtained an email that Liz Uihlein sent Wednesday to employees at Uline, the couple’s shipping supply company, saying they had the virus but would return to the office on Nov. Republican megadonors Liz and Dick Uihlein have tested positive for COVID-19, a newspaper reported Thursday. Anna Kim 2:55 p.m.: GOP megadonors Liz and Dick Uihlein test positive for COVID-19 “We are trying very hard to stay open, but at this time between not being able to staff my buildings and too many sick kids coming to school and too many families having COVID, we have to close,” Superintendent Stephanie Palmer said in an interview Thursday. Too many teachers and staff members had either tested positive for COVID-19 or are quarantining due to possible exposure, she said. Students and teachers returned to school Monday after the quarantine period ended, but by Wednesday evening, the district superintendent announced an immediate return to remote learning. At the end of October, families of students and some teachers reported positive cases of COVID-19, leading to a district-wide, two-week quarantine and a move to remote learning.

Norridge School District 80, a two-school elementary district that serves just over 1,000 students, began the school year with hybrid in-person and remote learning. Some teachers also composed a letter saying they felt they were facing unsafe working conditions. The new and probable cases set yet another record for a daily high, and the average number of new cases over the past week now stands at 11,625.Īdvertisement 4:05 p.m.: School buildings shut for quarantine, reopen for 3 days before new COVID cases in Norridge shut them down againĪfter having its school buildings closed for quarantine, a Norridge elementary school district reopened Monday and taught three days of in-person classes before a surge of new COVID cases forced it to send students at one school back home for remote learning. The state Department of Public Health on Thursday announced an additional 12,702 newly confirmed and probable cases and an additional 43 deaths of people with COVID-19. But right now, that seems like where we are heading.” “With every fiber of my being, I do not want us to get there. “If things don’t take a turn in the coming days, we will quickly reach the point when some form of a mandatory stay-at-home order is all that will be left,” Pritzker said at a coronavirus briefing in Chicago on Thursday. Pritzker warned Thursday that he may again put in place some form of a “mandatory” stay-at home order, the farthest-reaching restriction to curb the spread of COVID-19 he’s used to date. If Illinois' coronavirus resurgence doesn’t begin to subside, Gov. Jason Meisner 5:25 p.m.: As cases continue surging in Illinois, Pritzker warns possible 2nd state stay-at home order could be near This will be behind us-soon, I hope-and I want all of you back in person and healthy.”

“Please do your best to protect yourselves and others, not only here in the courthouse, but also in your personal lives. “Your safety remains my first priority as chief judge,” Pallmeyer wrote Thursday.

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