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COVID-19 Public Health Order - Indoor Mask Requirement

Indoor Mask Requirement

Public Health Director Theresa Chapple-McGruder, Village of Oak Park · Village of Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois (City)

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Jurisdiction
Village of Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois · Chicago · Illinois
Level
City
Authority
Village Resolutions 20-120 through 20-43; Ordinance 21-8, Village Code sec. 20-1-6(BB), extended through Nov. 15, 2021 by Ordinance 21-47
Issued
2021-08-05 Aug. 5, 2021
Effective
2021-08-06
End
Upon further order; in force through Sept. 30, 2021 (rescinded by order of Feb. 25, 2022, file-listed) (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Aug. 6, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q3
Limitation types
Face-covering requirementWorkplace rules
Addressees
  • all individuals over age two, regardless of vaccination status, including employees and staff
  • all businesses
Functions reached
  • SF
  • DR
  • SL
  • FC
  • OF
  • HR/EMP
  • WF
  • CB
Collection
Chicago MET-CHI

Operative words

2. The Village has experienced a 750% increase in COVID-19 cases in July 2021 as compared to June 2021. Therefore, I have determined that additional mitigation measures are necessary under Phase 5... 3. All Businesses and Individuals. A. All individuals over the age of two (2) and able to medically tolerate a mask, regardless of vaccination status, must wear a mask while indoors in a common or shared space in the following places: (1) a residential multi-unit building; (2) any non-residential building, which shall include all businesses; (3) health care settings; (4) nursing homes; (5) long-term care facilities; (6) shelters and other congregate settings; (7) government buildings; and (8) on buses, trains, other forms of public transportation, and in transportation stations or hubs. The requirement to wear a mask includes employees/staff at any place set forth above.

Enforcement

720 ILCS 5/12-5; 20 ILCS 2305/2(k) and 8.1; Village Code sec. 20-1-12

Notes

The earliest Delta-wave reinstatement in the Chicago metro: two weeks before Chicago and suburban Cook, twenty-four days before the State