Chicago will shut down three of its busiest streets this summer to make room for outdoor dining and live music, officials announced, in an effort to bring life.
Chicago Reopening: $250 Gift Cards, Lollapalooza Tickets Offered - Chicago, IL - "Capacity limits: gone. Mask mandates: not mandatory," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said. "And social distancing requirements: lifted."
Chicago is seeing a rolling seven-day average of 135 new COVID cases per day, which is down 44% from last week and under the 200 cases per day metric that the city s health officials have long said would indicate that the pandemic s spread is more under control.
Hospitalizations are down 57% from the prior week as of Thursday and deaths are down to an average of four per day, city data shows. The percent positivity in coronavirus testing was at 2.0% Wednesday - which Lightfoot highlighted as the city s lowest rate since March 2020. We know the vaccine is safe and works, Lightfoot tweeted Wednesday. Getting everyone vaccinated is key to our safe reopening strategy. This is a big deal. Let’s keep the great momentum folks. Get vaxxed.
Lollapalooza will release single-day tickets to the music festival this summer in Chicago's Grant Park on Wednesday, just two hours after the daily concert.