A month after mask mandates were lifted across Illinois, COVID-19 cases are on the rise in Chicago once again — but the city “remains in good control,” officials said Wednesday.
An average of 223 Chicagoans have tested positive each day over the past week, a 34% increase from the previous week, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health. That’s also a 16% jump compared to the end of February, when Mayor Lori Lightfoot lifted the city’s indoor mask requirement.
