Pritzker relaxes COVID-19 vaccine mandates for some health care workers, college students
Vaccine mandates will remain in place for K-12 schools, daycares, and congregate care facilities.
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Vaccine mandates will remain in place for K-12 schools, daycares, and congregate care facilities.
The move comes three weeks after the arena also dropped its mask requirement, although guests are still encouraged to wear masks.
Critics of the mayor had wanted to use a special City Council meeting to demand changes to the vaccine mandate for city workers, but couldn't get a quorum to show up.
Chicago's vaccine mandate for city employees remains in place, and with the deadline having come and gone, thousands of city workers could be put on no-pay status.
As of March 8, at least 3,575 city workers were not yet vaccinated. Of those, 2,777 are employees of the Chicago Police Department, and 327 work for the Fire Department.
