The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board held a hearing Monday on the Chicago Teachers Union's unfair labor practice charge over the district's decision to go mask optional last month.
Ken Meyer, commissioner of the city’s Department of Business Affairs & Consumer Protection. said it was a "great day" in Chicago with masks becoming optional in most settings.
Cases are rising in several Midwest states as temperatures cool and people head inside this winter, making the area the “current COVID hot spot,” according.