Chicago Adds Nebraska to Quarantine Order
Chicago – The City of Chicago has added Nebraska, Missouri, Wisconsin and North Dakota to the list of states where people who are traveling to the city must quarantine for two weeks as Illinois learned that its own residents must do the same when they travel to New York, New Jersey or Connecticut.
Chicago officials said that anyone from those states who doesn’t comply with the requirement could face possible fines. They issued the quarantine order in early July. Initially, it applied to travelers from 15 states, but it has been updated weekly based on increasing numbers of confirmed cases of the virus. The expansion brought the total number of affected states to 22.
Iowa was listed in a previous update. To comply with Chicago’s order, travelers must stay at a single home or other dwelling for 14 days except to seek medical care or be tested for COVID-19.
Chicago officials acknowledged that there’s no way to broadly enforce the order. Arwady said public health officials can write tickets when they find people have violated the order, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday that she wasn’t aware of anyone who had been fined by the city for violating it.
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