Politics & Government
Lightfoot Expects Stay-At-Home Order Will Continue Past April 30
Mayor Lightfoot predicts the stay-at-home order due to the new coronavirus pandemic will extend beyond the current April 30 expiration date.
CHICAGO — Be prepared to keep staying home to save lives, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday.
The mayor predicted that the statewide stay-at-home order implemented due to the new coronavirus pandemic will extend beyond the current April 30 expiration date.
"I think that's going to be difficult for us to say, April 30. ... I don't expect that to happen," Lightfoot said. "I think it will extend beyond that."
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Lightfoot said said her administration has already started to consider the logistics for ending the stay-at-home regulations.
"We are already in the process of thinking about, even when we get to a point where we feel safe from a public health standpoint, what will be the sequencing of lifting that," the mayor said.
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"That's a conversation of course we need to have with the governor and his team."
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