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Executive Order 2020-10 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 8)

Stay at Home Order; social distancing; essential businesses; closure of day care centers except emergency child care; schools closed through April 7, 2020

Governor JB Pritzker · Illinois (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Illinois
Level
State
Authority
Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act, 20 ILCS 3305/7(1), (2), (8), (10), (12); Gubernatorial Disaster Proclamation Mar. 9, 2020
Issued
2020-03-20 Mar. 20, 2020
Effective
March 21, 2020, 5:00 p.m. (read as 2020-03-21)
End
April 7, 2020 (extended by EO 2020-18 to Apr. 30 and EO 2020-32 to May 29, 2020) (read as 2020-04-07)
In force
Mar. 21, 2020 to Apr. 7, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeBusiness closureGathering capSchools and child care
Addressees
  • all individuals living in Illinois
  • non-essential businesses
  • day care centers, day care homes, group day care homes (closed except emergency child care)
  • schools
Functions reached
  • WF (child care closed except emergency care; schools closed)
  • STAY
  • CLOSE
Collection
Workforce, schools and child care ECO-B

Operative words

'Section 1. Stay at Home; Social Distancing Requirements; and Essential Businesses and Operations. 1. Stay at home or place of residence. With exceptions as outlined below, all individuals currently living within the State of Illinois are ordered to stay at home or at their place of residence...' Section 12: the Stay at Home order applies to day care centers, day care homes and group day care homes licensed under the Child Care Act, 225 ILCS 10, 'except for day care centers... licensed as specified in Section 12(s)' (emergency child care for essential workers); schools 'ordered closed through April 7, 2020' (extending EO 2020-05/2020-07).

Enforcement

20 ILCS 3305/7, /19; Illinois State Police

Notes

Illinois child care operated only under emergency licenses (groups of 10 or fewer) until May 29, 2020.

Retrieval note

State's official executive-order page rendered to PDF; full text present (25,201 characters).