Lack of Social Distancing Leads to Closure of Parks, Trails

Lack of Social Distancing Leads to Closure of Parks, Trails
Residents enjoy the warm weather with a stroll along the Lakefront Trail near Oak Street Beach, on March 25, 2020, in Chicago, Illi., despite a stay-at-home order from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker during the CCP virus pandemic. Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP
The Associated Press
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OAK PARK—It was a sunny day, the first in about a week when temperatures had climbed past the 50-degree mark, and people in Chicago did what they always do on such a day: They flocked to the shores of Lake Michigan.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot did not consider that the kind of postcard perfect scene that attracts visitors from around the world. She saw danger. She saw “packs” of people and worried about the possibility that the CCP virus was spreading from one person to another.