Governor Pritzker has issued at shelter-at-home order for everyone effective at 5:00 PM today until at least April 7th. This means no gathering in groups larger than 10 people. We must still practice social distancing and stay 6 feet away from people. All parks are closed. Only leave the house for essential reasons. Grabbing takeout, ordering an Uber and dropping off dry cleaning are still permitted.
Pritzker’s order includes a long list of vital occupations that can stay on the job: health care workers, grocery employees, funeral home employees, pharmacists, hardware store workers, plumbers, electricians, day care providers, bank tellers and roles that are essential to the supply chain. Police, firefighters and paramedics also can keep working.
I feel like this is what we have been primarily doing anyway, so this isn't a drastic change for us. Now, it's just mandated for everyone. Police are not arresting people or checking where you are going, so it's not like there are checkpoints that you have to go through when you drive somewhere. That has been happening in other countries, though.
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