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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is asking Gov. J.B. Pritzker to reevaluate how children’s museums are allowed to operate in Illinois. Republican state Sen. Jason Barickman along with state Sen. Dave Koehler and state Rep. Kelly Burke, both Democrats, have sent a letter to the governor outlining their concerns with the restrictions on children’s museums. Under existing rules, museum directors say they cannot reopen to the public until Phase 5 of the Restore Illinois plan because they offer primarily hands-on exhibits. “The governor needs to fix this,” Barickman said. “He’s created these problems and the result is that some of these children’s museums are at risk of being entirely shutdown, bankrupt in effect.” ....
(The Center Square) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers is asking Gov. J.B. Pritzker to reevaluate how children’s museums are allowed to operate in Illinois. Republican state Sen. Jason Barickman along with state Sen. Dav. ....
Staff / WGLT Bloomington-Normal and Peoria lawmakers are asking the Pritzker administration to address what they call an “oversight” that has kept children’s museums closed while many other types of museums and indoor recreation options have reopened. Vaccinations are underway and case counts are down. But Phase 4 of the Restore Illinois plan continues to keep children’s museums closed. That’s because its museum guidelines say “hands-on exhibits should be closed or modified to eliminate the hands-on component.” For children’s museums, that’s pretty much everything. “This means while most museums are allowed to reopen and begin to recover from a year-long closure, children’s museums and science centers, which contain almost 100% ‘hands-on exhibits,’ will remain shuttered until Phase 5,” they wrote. “The policy does not seem consistent and could be seen as unfairly targeting museums which were widely recognized as industry leaders i ....
SPRINGFIELD â The coronavirus region that includes McLean County is among those moving to Tier 2 mitigations, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Friday, but that doesnât mean that some restrictions from Tier 3 wonât carry over into the coming weeks. Region 2 â which includes McLean, Peoria, Woodford, Tazewell, LaSalle and Livingston counties â is among those who met the criteria for the rollback, defined by the Illinois Department of Public Health as having experienced âless than 12% test positivity rate for three consecutive days and greater than 20% available intensive care unit and hospital bed availability and declining COVID hospitalizations in 7 out of the last 10 days.â ....