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The Center Square: After Supreme Court eviction decision, Illinois landlords speak out
Even though the U.S. Supreme Court has ended the pandemic-related federal moratorium on residential evictions, the Illinois moratorium continues.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention health order had banned evictions nationwide in areas with high COVID-19 transmission rates.
Chicago Tribune: Chicago Teachers Union says ‘CPS is not ready’ for Monday’s start of school, has rolled back COVID-19 safety measures
Chicago Public Schools “is not ready” for hundreds of thousands of students to return Monday for full-time in-person learning, the leader of the Chicago Teachers Union said Friday as negotiations over fall reopening plans continued.
“While (CPS’) public relations campaign tries to paint everything as a success, the mayor’s team in bargaining is stripping away several health and safety protocols that were in place in the winter and spring — mitigations that even they said kept people safe,” CTU President Jesse Sharkey said in a Friday emailed bargaining update.
Belleville News-Democrat: Illinois educators must get COVID shot by Sept. 5, but the logistics aren’t clear yet
All school employees in Illinois will have to either get the COVID vaccine or submit to weekly testing, but the logistics of how that will happen aren’t clear yet, even with the deadline just a week and a half away.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday that all school staff working in preschool through 12th grade schools and in higher education must get their first vaccine shot by Sept. 5, or be tested at least once a week. Higher education students and healthcare workers must also get the vaccine.
Belleville News-Democrat: Madison County won’t enforce Illinois’ new mask mandate, state’s attorney says
Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine says his office is not “willing or able” to file criminal charges to enforce Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s recent mask mandate.
On Thursday Pritzker announced his latest executive order requiring face coverings indoors for the foreseeable future to combat rising COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths.