Despite Illinois allowing restaurants to reopen for outdoor seating in phase three of its reopening plan, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said city residents shouldn’t expect that to happen this month.
Chicago sits within a region that is, along with all of Illinois’ other health regions, on track to reopen as early as May 29 under state standards, but Lightfoot had previously unveiled her own reopening plan for city residents.
“As everyone surely knows, the city of Chicago has its own responsibilities and obligations to craft policies, public health policies, that are specific to the city of Chicago and we are hard at work on looking at ways in which we can get our restaurant industry back up.”
Lightfoot declined to give a “magic date,” but said the decision will be made when the city meets the health metrics laid out in her city-specific five-phased reopening plan.
