Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker will lift his indoor mask mandate for most public places on Feb. 28 if the state’s largest COVID-19 surge continues to subside. But he is not dropping masking rules for schools.
The aftershocks of an Illinois judge’s decision upending Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 school mask mandate rumbled across Chicago and the suburbs for a second day, igniting parent protests and heightening fears about the safety of students and teachers.