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8:55 p.m. Indoor restaurant service back on the menu in south suburbs as Illinois reports 123 more coronavirus deaths
From mid-November until last weekend, indoor service had been banned in all 11 regions of the state.
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Indoor service is officially back on tap for bars and restaurants in many of Chicago’s south suburbs at least for those that weren’t already flouting Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 business restrictions.
The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Thursday the Will-Kankakee county region improved to Tier 1 of the state’s mitigation plan. That allows customers to be served inside at bars and restaurants, limited to the lesser of 25% capacity or 25 people per room.
the great getaway is underway. i want to go home. by plane, train, or automobile, tens of thousands of people are heading of the town. we will tell you how smoothly it is going to die. plus, the holiday forecast. we will tell you how smoothly it is going tonight. the rush is on to find the perfect gift. it is a miracle. the gesture that kept this one from losing her house. the story you have to see to believe. abc 7 news at 11:00 starts now. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org live and in hd, this is abc 7 news at 11:00, on your side. we are going to begin with the rush to get out of town. earlier today, a lot of bottle necks were reported on highways including i-95. that looks like things are starting to clear out a little bit. here is a look at a live picture. the roads look pretty good. for more on holiday travel, let s go to cynee simpson at dulles international airport. how are things going? i think this is about the perfect ti