Less than two months after lifting nearly all of his remaining coronavirus restrictions, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday issued a new statewide mask requirement for schools and a vaccine mandate ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Citing the "growing threat" of the delta variant of COVID-19, Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday announced a new statewide mask mandate for public and private schools in Illinois.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he will ask the Illinois Supreme Court to step in after his administration lost an attempt to keep statewide masking and other COVID-19 mitigation measures at schools in ...

Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of Americans have not contracted COVID-19 and still could ... up our hands in the air right now," Pritzker said. The mask enforcement rule will soon go before ...

If COVID-19 metrics continue to improve, Illinoisans can cast off their masks indoors in most public spaces on Feb. 28, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday, but schools will need to wait until later ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker puts away his face mask before delivering his daily Illinois coronavirus update at the Thompson Center in April. “Without intervention, our healthcare system would be overrun ...

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J.B. Pritzker, set to expire April 30 ... here's a look at which major U.S. airlines are lifting their mask mandates for domestic flights. CDC COVID Quarantine Guidelines: What to Do if You ...

Pritzker officially lifted his mask mandate for schools starting Monday ... Currently, the state is reporting 1,143 COVID-19 patients hospitalized statewide. There were 2,266 COVID-19 patients ...

Illinois is planning to partially lift its indoor mask mandate on Feb. 28 amid falling cases of coronavirus. That eased requirement doesn’t apply to schools, though Pritzker has said that ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker will give a COVID-19 update Wednesday, his office says. Meanwhile, Chicago's top doctor said she went undercover at Lollapalooza last weekend to see how the festival was ...