SPRINGFIELD — One day after the state’s indoor mask mandate ended, the fight over a rule requiring face coverings in the Illinois House raged on Tuesday, ending in three bare-faced Republican lawmakers being given the boot.
“What we’re doing is the absolute height of irrationality. It’s ignorance. It’s hypocrisy,” Republican state Rep. Blaine Wilhour said on the House floor. “It’s time to stand up for sanity in here. It’s time to take a vote on removing this mask mandate.”
