Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday she is prepared to enforce the rules requiring city employees, including Chicago police officers, to be vaccinated against the coronavirus but added: “We’re not doing mass firings today.”
Reiterating that her goal is to “educate people into compliance,” Lightfoot said the Chicago Police Department will start by identifying those officers who have neither been vaccinated nor granted a religious or medical exemption or are awaiting action on an exemption request. Sunday was the deadline for officers to receive their first vaccine dose.
