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Others called for Illinois to drop other restrictions, including mask requirements, capacity limits at bars, restaurants and other venues, and restrictions imposed by local schools.
Despite the calls for restrictions to be dropped, many still said mask requirements should be kept. Keep the mask mandate for a little while longer, but open everything up, one Patch reader wrote.
In fact, asked how much longer the state should impose its mask mandate, a plurality nearly 45 percent, or over 1,900 said masks should be worn as long as Illinois health officials say they are necessary.
But the second-largest group around 1,700, or 40 percent of those who responded were in favor of scrapping the mask mandate entirely right now.