The COVID Project
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- Jurisdiction
- Suburban Cook County, Illinois (CCDPH jurisdiction) · Chicago · Illinois
- Level
- County
- Authority
- 20 ILCS 2305; 20 ILCS 2310; Cook County Code ch. 38 art. II
- Issued
- 2021-05-14 May 14, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-05-14
- End
- Repealed June 11, 2021 by Order 2021-9 (Ex. MET-CHI-040) (read as 2021-06-11)
- In force
- May 14, 2021 to June 11, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitFace-covering requirementEvents and venuesWorkplace rulesVaccination or testing
- Addressees
- all businesses and individuals
- venue operators and event organizers
- restaurants and bars
- Functions reached
- DR 75 percent
- HR/EMP vaccination verification and record-keeping duties
- EV venue plans
- IC health-care masks
- WF transit masks
- CB
- Collection
- Chicago MET-CHI
Operative words
All individuals over the age of two... regardless of vaccination status, must continue to wear masks in health care settings, nursing homes, long-term care facilities, shelters and other congregate settings, on planes, buses, trains, other forms of public transportation, in airports, and in other transportation stations or hubs.... All venue operators and event organizers must have a plan to ensure individuals wear a mask... Fully-vaccinated individuals are exempt from capacity limits in all sectors.... Businesses that choose to participate in allowing any exemptions... for fully-vaccinated patrons must establish a system for verifying vaccination status. At minimum, it is the responsibility of the business to track patrons who are fully vaccinated and maintain those records so that they are available for health department investigators upon request.... Bars, Restaurants...: Indoor service is limited up to 75% of capacity per room.
Enforcement
Cook County Code sec. 38-38; 'Failure to require patrons who are not fully-vaccinated to be masked will be seen as a violation of the establishment to operate safely'
Notes
Imposes a vaccination-verification and record-retention duty on any suburban Cook business using the vaccinated-patron exemption