Oak Park’s Public Health Department has been a state-certified local health department for 75 years, but facets of the robust department residents know now existed long before then, too.
Outreach workers are still scrambling to convince the unvaccinated to get their shots, and a long list of private businesses and government agencies have made it a condition of employment.
Polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that since the vaccines became widely available, about 15% of adults have said they will “definitely not” get one.