5 Illinois driver’s license facilities closed nearly a year in Chicago area
5 Illinois driver’s license facilities closed nearly a year in Chicago area
State workers are still being paid as their five Chicago-area driver’s license facilities remain closed for nearly a year. That’s as 1.2 million Illinoisans are driving on expired licenses.
Nearly 1 in 10 Illinoisans are driving with expired licenses or using expired IDs, but five Illinois Secretary of State’s driver’s license facilities in or near Chicago have been closed for almost a year.
Four have no set date to reopen.
Driver services offices that remained open during the pandemic have seen significantly longer lines, in part because of license facility closures, Secretary of State spokesman Henry Haupt said. Three of the facilities were closed for COVID-19 reasons, one because of sewer work and the fifth after it was torched during late-May rioting.