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- Jurisdiction
- City of Chicago, Illinois · Chicago · Illinois
- Level
- City
- Authority
- Municipal Code of Chicago ch. 2-112; Governor's Executive Order 2020-10 (Mar. 20, 2020)
- Issued
- 2020-03-26 Mar. 26, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-26
- End
- Amended and re-issued May 1, 2020 (Ex. MET-CHI-006) and May 29, 2020 (Ex. MET-CHI-007); Lakefront closure carried into Order 2020-9 Sec. 5 (June 5, 2020) and released in stages thereafter (read as 2020-05-01)
- In force
- Mar. 26, 2020 to May 1, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureGathering cap
- Addressees
- the public
- Chicago Park District property users
- Functions reached
- CB customer base (public ordered off the Lakefront and out of gatherings)
- GATH events
- SF concessions, marinas, harbors, tour boats and lakefront vendors closed
- Collection
- Chicago MET-CHI
Operative words
This order closes all Chicago parks, beaches, and trails on and adjacent to the Lakefront, the Chicago Riverwalk, and the Bloomingdale Trail (the 606)... Any get-togethers of more than ten people in public or at home are also not allowed. The Police Department will help in making sure that people are following the rules. (CDPH summary of the order; the exhibit is the signed order as an image PDF)
Enforcement
Chicago Police Department enforcement; Municipal Code of Chicago sec. 2-112-340
Notes
Closed the City's principal recreation, tourism and boating corridor; the May 1 version added boating, golf and fishing prohibitions citywide
Retrieval noteImage-only PDF (no text layer); content verified from CDPH's own description on its orders page and from the May 1, 2020 amended text, which restates Sections 1-4.