Illinois retailers brace for COVID-19 capacity restrictions in time for Black Friday shopping – Center Square

“It has justified what we have contended even back in March,” said Illinois Retail Merchants’ Association Executive Director Rob Karr, “that you don’t need to drive distinctions between essential and nonessential retail, there’s no reason that a bookstore, or an apparel store or a craft store can’t be open under the same operating conditions as a grocery store.”