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.
Why Are Five Illinois Driver’s License Facilities In The Chicago Area Closed, Some With No Date Set For Reopening?
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CHICAGO (CBS) It’s an astounding number – more than 1 million people are driving with expired licenses or using expired IDs in Illinois right now.
Making the problem worse in the Chicago area is that almost a half dozen Illinois Secretary of State’s driver’s license facilities are closed.
CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov wanted to know what is happening with those closed offices. Five offices in all – including the one in the basement of the George W. Dunne Cook County Office Building at 69 W. Washington St. downtown, are still closed.