Businesses could face fines of up to $2,500 if they fail to enforce rules requiring face coverings and limiting crowd sizes under new emergency rules announced Friday by Gov. JB Pritzker.
The new rules, which will face a bipartisan legislative panel next week, immediately came under fire from some Republican lawmakers and retailers for targeting businesses with penalties.
Those developments came on the same day that the Illinois Department of Public Health reported more than 2,000 additional cases of COVID-19. There are now 13 counties in the state that are exceeding two or more metrics used to determine if an
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