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By Dave Dahl
SPRINGFIELD – If everything goes as planned, Gov. JB Pritzker can look at Thursday as a big, big step forward.
“We are at 58 percent of our 65-and-older population that has been vaccinated,” Pritzker said at a Chicago news conference. “When we get to seventy percent, we will be able to move to the bridge phase, which increases capacity, allows businesses to have more customers, getting our economy really moving. Then during the 28 days following that, hoping to get half of our adult population vaccinated. Then we would move to be fully open in the state, and people would just be required to wear masks.”
The bridge phase expands standing-room capacity at restaurants and allows theatres to open to sixty percent.
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