Six months later. Half a year after Illinois became one of the first states in the nation to issue a stay-home order for the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Pritzker and two of the state’s public health leaders look ahead to what comes next.
Illinois ‘eviction cliff.’ As Pritzker’s statewide pandemic eviction moratorium ends this week, Chicago magazine’s Sara Freund says renters and landlords face a crisis. ■ A landlord tells the Tribune: “If I lose my properties to the bank, and the bank eventually does an eviction, now we’re all out on the street.” ■ The pandemic-driven biggest surge in unemployment since the Great Depression is driving a food crisis.
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■ Thanks to One Illinois’ Ted Cox for spotting the missing link above.