What are the guidelines for phase 5 in Chicago and Illinois? No capacity limits, some masking, and possible limits from individual businesses or towns. – Chicago Tribune*
Masks will still be required for everyone, even vaccinated people, on public transit, at the airport, and in schools, hospitals and other congregate settings. The state is now adjusting guidelines for outdoor mask wearing at schools, dropping the requirement in most situations.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.