Chicagoans welcome new COVID-19 vaccine requirement; business owners more wary – Chicago Sun-Times*

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.”