Chicago travelers were left to navigate a patchwork of changing mask rules Tuesday after Gov. J.B. Pritzker revised Illinois requirements midday.
Chicago travelers were left to navigate a patchwork of changing mask rules Tuesday after a federal judge voided a national mandate for planes, trains and buses and Gov. J.B. Pritzker revised Illinois requirements midday.
The end of the transportation mask mandate represents another attempt to leap toward normal. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to recommend people wear masks while indoors on public transportation, but with the rule changes Tuesday, masks are no longer legally mandated in Chicago or Illinois businesses, schools or travel settings.
[Most read] A Chicago Heights man mailed a holiday check for $10. He later found out it was altered to a different name and cashed for $9,500.“No one wears right anyway,” she said. “I’m healthy, I don’t have any vulnerabilities to latch on to. I don’t eat on the plane.” The guild advised concerned drivers to keep wearing masks and use a partition, Sanchez said. He also said passengers who get into a ride-share and see their driver wearing a mask should be respectful, sit in the back seat and mask up.Driver George Keske, 46, said he was glad he wouldn’t have to fight with passengers about wearing masks and that he wouldn’t have to worry about being falsely accused of not wearing a mask himself.
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