- December 21, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot is expected to announce Tuesday that businesses will soon have to start checking patrons’ COVID-19 vaccination status.
Lightfoot said last week an announcement was coming soon on mitigation measures as the city faces another wave of COVID-19 cases. Now, she’s said she’ll provide a pandemic update during a news conference at 1:30 p.m.
Dr. Allison Arwady, the city’s health commissioner, previously said officials were looking at requiring businesses to check patrons’ vaccination status. She said officials were more interested in mitigations like that than in mass closures like were used at the start of the pandemic.
Lightfoot is expected to say businesses where patrons participate in indoor, leisure activities — including restaurants, bars and gyms — will have to check if people are fully vaccinated starting in 2022, WTTW’s Paris Schutz said in a tweet. There may also be a negative testing requirement that…
