Chicago becomes the latest major city to ditch Covid-19 capacity limits
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Chicago and the rest of Illinois lifted capacity limits on businesses on Friday, declaring their economies fully reopen for the first time since Covid-19 restrictions were enacted last year.
Illinois joins a growing number of states that have largely ditched capacity restrictions on businesses. Many of those moves came as vaccinations rose and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last month that fully vaccinated people generally don't need to wear masks indoors or outdoors. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the move makes her city the largest US municipality to fully reopen.President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.