Maskless Monday no reason to celebrate, some say

In early January, the city began requiring proof-of-vaccination to eat in a restaurant, and masks were still required indoors. Monday, those restrictions were lifted. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Not everyone was celebrating “freedom-from-masks Monday” by showing their faces and pocketing their masks and vaccine identification cards.

A coalition of community groups, public health advocates and parents of Chicago Public School students accused Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker of caving to political pressure to lift the mandates — and putting Black and Brown lives in danger in the process.