Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot joined forces with Walgreens to announce that vaccination clinics will open at 10 major office buildings, seven of them in downtown Chicago. The others will be in Rockford, with two locations, and Schaumburg. Clinics will be open during shift changes to capture the greatest number of employees.
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Before the stay-at-home shutdown triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, more than 600,000 employees worked at Chicago’s impressive array of downtown office buildings.
They’re starting to trickle back to work, but the key to opening up the floodgates is getting even more employees vaccinated by bringing the vaccine to those workplaces.