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Executive Order 2020-05 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 3), as amended by Executive Order 2020-06 (COVID-19 EO No. 4, Mar. 15, 2020)

Closure of all public and private pre-kindergarten through 12th grade schools

Governor JB Pritzker · Illinois (State)

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Jurisdiction
Illinois
Level
State
Authority
20 ILCS 3305/7(1), 7(8), 7(12)
Issued
2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
Effective
2020-03-17
End
Through Mar. 30, 2020 by its terms; extended through Apr. 7 (EO 2020-10 para. 12(j)), Apr. 30 (EO 2020-18) and May 29, 2020 (EO 2020-33), i.e., the remainder of the 2019-20 school year; limited in-person summer instruction permitted from June 4, 2020 (EO 2020-40) (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
Mar. 17, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Schools and child care
Addressees
  • all public and private schools serving pre-K-12
Functions reached
  • WF workforce (children at home)
  • IN in-person instruction
  • CB families
Collection
Illinois IL

Operative words

Section 1. Beginning on March 17, 2020, all public and private schools in Illinois serving pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students must close for educational purposes through March 30, 2020. This requirement does not affect the availability of school buildings for the provision of food or other non-educational services, nor does it affect the availability of school buildings to serve as election polling locations.

Enforcement

20 ILCS 3305/7; School Code provisions suspended (chronic absence, 105 ILCS 5/26-18)

Notes

EO 2020-06 (Mar. 15) restated the closure and exempted IDJJ, ISBE and DHS-operated schools. EO 2020-15 (Mar. 27) created Remote Learning Days.

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