Chicago coronavirus: Lightfoot to make use of empty lodge rooms for

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday unveiled a plan she known as a countrywide fashion to ease the tension on overburdened hospitals: Rent 1000's of rooms in empty downtown inns and re-open a shuttered health facility to isolate sufferers who check certain for the coronavirus or were uncovered to any individual who has. In addition, the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago will supply 400 beds for homeless Chicagoans now dwelling in shut quarters in homeless encampments. The lodge partnership is remarkable and ordinary. To make it occur, City Hall first brokered an settlement to unravel an 18-month strike via UNITE HERE Local 1 towards Fillmore Hospitality, operator of Hotel One Sixty-Six downtown. That will permit the union’s individuals to go