Despite parent protests, lawsuits, and polarized communities where grievances erupted between neighbors, the Illinois school mask mandate ended Monday without fanfare.
A cheerful contingent of kindergartners queued up outside Patton Elementary School in Arlington Heights Monday morning, blissfully unaware that Feb. 28 marked a dramatic milestone in their nearly two-year trek through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students arrive at Patton Elementary School in Arlington Heights on Feb. 28, 2022. Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. J.B. Pritzker has lifted the school mask mandate. At Barrington 220 School District, where frustrated parents have packed school board meetings in recent months, demanding an end to the mask mandate, Superintendent Robert Hunt said in a letter to parents that even with the new CDC guidance, “anyone who wishes to continue wearing a mask is welcome to do so.”
Attorney Tom DeVore, who represents hundreds of Illinois parents who filed a lawsuit against the governor and the Illinois Department of Public Health, arguing that the school mask mandate was authorized illegally, said the governor “didn’t lift anything, because there was nothing for him to lift.”
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