On Thursday, August 26th, Governor J.B. Pritzker announced in a news conference in Chicago, that he is reinstating indoor mask mandates, regardless of vaccination status. This comes from seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases over the past few weeks.

Pritzker said, “Unfortunately, our current vaccination levels are not enough to blunt the ferocity of the delta variant hospitalization surges in some regions. Hospital administrators are asking for more help, to manage the sheer number of incoming patients who, I’ll emphasize again, are almost exclusively are individuals who have chosen not to get the life-saving vaccine. Hospital ICU beds are filling up once again.”

Read more below!