In addition to calling for additional ATF agents be deployed to Chicago, Lightfoot — who said the city was “awash” in guns — said more federal prosecutors would be needed to handle the “new cases that will be generated.” Lightfoot also called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to send extra deputy US marshals to help Chicago cops and the Cook County Sheriff’s Office track down wanted suspects. “We need these additional resources well in advance of summer.”

“To put it simply, if you have been living vaccine-free, your time is up. If you wish to live life as w/the ease to do the things you love, you must be vax’d,” Mayor Lightfoot tweeted. “This health order may pose an inconvenience to the unvaccinated, and in fact, it is inconvenient by design.”

“The report included such terms as ‘substantial abuse of discretion,’ ‘breached its obligations of honesty’ and ‘major failure of the operations of the [state’s attorney’s office].’ That’s a pretty stiff indictment of an office that is crucial to the safety of the city and the county. Those are not terms that Foxx can shrug off.”

“We have no evidence that shutting down schools, whole systems, has done anything to counter the spread of the virus,” Pedro Martinez said. “What we have evidence is that, when we’ve done that, we’ve hurt children, we’ve hurt their mental health, we’ve hurt their social and emotional well-being, and we have hurt their academics in ways that we’re still trying to understand today.”

“What we don’t want to do is lose all of our money basically for the entire month by somebody getting sick and having the whole restaurant shut down completely for 10 days and then inevitably forcing a closure,” one owner said.

Restaurant owner Ramon Aguirre said the new mandate is another hardship for restaurants. “It puts us in a tough spot trying to police our customers. We have a hard enough job as it is with the supply chain problems that caused our food costs to rise,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of curveballs that were thrown our way the last couple years,” he said, though he noted another shutdown “would cripple the industry.”

“Residents of Chicago and suburban Cook County need to feel like they can confidently put their trust in their state’s attorney. The litany of gaffes, deception and poor stewardship that Foxx and her office displayed through the Smollett debacle deeply gashed that trust.”

At Northwestern Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield and Delnor Hospital in Geneva, “if you look at our licensed beds, are we running recently over that number of patients? We certainly are,” said Dr. Kevin Most, chief medical officer for both facilities.

Mark Liberson owns a number of North Side venues that have been requiring proof of vaccination since August. He said the city’s new health order brings consistency and clarity to all of Chicago. “I think the consistency of a requirement really does make things a lot easier.”

Lightfoot initially voiced opposition to vaccination passport policies implemented by other major cities such as Los Angeles and New York, even dismissing an aldermanic proposal for a similar citywide mandate earlier this year. But now Lightfoot says the city’s substantial transmission rates necessitate new restrictions. She said these rules will remain in place “through this Omicron-driven surge and the risk of overwhelming hospital capacity has passed.”

“Foxx is clearly responsible for the breaches found by Webb. Yet, the report details how she knew Smollett was a suspect in communicating with his family and continued to act in the case after promising to recuse herself. Those are serious allegations worthy of an investigation by the bar. “

Beginning Jan. 3, anyone age 5 and older will be required to show proof of full vaccination to dine inside, visit gyms or entertainment venues where food and drinks are being served. The city noted its indoor mask mandate also remains in effect.

“That sets up a doomsday scenario for CPS — a return to remote learning that further worsens the derailment of students’ education, further isolates kids socially and emotionally, and unnecessarily imperils their futures. Struggles in school have a cumulative effect.”

From the start of the year until Dec. 19, shootings wounded 409 juveniles in Chicago, a police spokesperson told Fox News Digital Monday.

As of Saturday, at least 60 felons were accused of murder, attempted murder or shootings while awaiting trial for a previous felony, with the total number of victims from these crimes adding up to at least 92. The latest felon was arrested Wednesday after shooting a 17-year-old girl during a marijuana sale Dec. 5.

As of Tuesday, every state or territory except for Guam, Louisiana, South Carolina, and the Virgin Islands are on the advisory.

While no one was shot or injured in this case, what played out over the weekend raises more questions about whether ISP has any control – or has simply lost control of the expressways they patrol.