Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s “stay-at-home” order is in impact for everybody in Illinois via April 7 to assist forestall the unfold of COVID-19.
Yes, you’ll move outdoor and select up mail on the publish place of job (whilst training social distancing).
And no, there received’t be martial legislation or any military individuals blocking off freeway exits.
The governor laid out the main points of what the order will imply for Illinoisans in a information convention Friday. “Essential businesses,” together with grocery retail outlets, pharmacies, clinical workplaces, hospitals and gasoline stations will proceed to function.
“Agriculture and the press, veterinarians and plumbers, laundromats and banks, roads, bridges and transit — the fundamental building blocks that keep our society safe and steady — will not be closing down,” Pritzker mentioned. “Healthcare workers, first responders, law enforcement officers and individuals and organizations like the Illinois AFL-CIO” will proceed to paintings.
The state will supply daycare to main staff as colleges proceed to be closed. Pritzker mentioned the tentative reopening date for colleges statewide has been driven again to April 8.
For non-essential staff, “we’re ordering municipalities across the state to halt all evictions,” Pritzker mentioned.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot echoed Pritzker’s remarks concerning the necessity of the “stay-at-home” measure and detailed specifics on what is going to and won’t proceed to function in Chicago. “Hospitals will continue to treat patients, the city’s essential services will not cease, the CTA will run, airports will be open, and your garbage will be collected,” Lightfoot mentioned, however parks and libraries around the town will probably be closed “for the duration of this order” beginning at five p.m. Saturday.
Pritzker implored Illinoisans to heed those restrictions “to be good members of their communities, and good citizens,” and Lightfoot emphasised that the transfer “is not a lockdown or martial law.” But Pritzker mentioned he has “instructed law enforcement to monitor for violations and take action when necessary.”
Transcriptions of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s key remarks from the ‘stay-at-home’ briefing:
What won’t alternate
Here’s what is going to keep the similar: You’ll nonetheless have the ability to go away your home to visit the grocer to get meals. You’ll nonetheless have the ability to seek advice from a pharmacy, move to a clinical place of job, or medical institution, or to gasoline up your automotive at a gasoline station. You’ll nonetheless have the ability to move operating, and mountain climbing and stroll your canine. Many, many of us will nonetheless move to paintings. For the majority of you already taking precautions, your lives won’t alternate very a lot.
There is admittedly no want to rush out to a grocery retailer or a gasoline station. On Sunday, and Monday, and Tuesday, and each day thereafter, the ones will probably be to be had to you.
“Essential businesses” that can proceed to function
Agriculture and the click, veterinarians and plumbers, laundromats and banks, roads, bridges and transit — the basic construction blocks that stay our society secure and secure — is probably not remaining down.
You can nonetheless select up dinner out of your native eating place, select up your prescriptions and simply spend time along with your circle of relatives. We are doing all we will to handle as a lot normalcy as imaginable whilst taking the stairs that we should to give protection to you.
What will alternate
That brings me to what is going to alternate: All non-essential companies should forestall running. If you’ll work at home and aren’t already doing so, now’s the time whilst you should.
The heroes of this second — well being care staff, first responders, legislation enforcement officials and folks and organizations just like the Illinois AFL-CIO, and different staff who stay you grocery retail outlets and pharmacies operating — can not keep house. We want you.
This govt order is essentially about the remainder of us, and what we will do to make stronger the folks at the entrance traces of this battle, and the folks maximum prone to its penalties. We know this will probably be onerous, and we’re…