Illinois Government Responses to Covid-19 Updated 5/8/2020

Today’s update discusses: EMERGENCY POWERS Additionally, Lightfoot would like to see at least 135,000 residents tested a month, with positive rates decreasing below 15% and an average of at least 14 days of declining rates of new cases. RESOURCES  HEALTH

COVID-19 Relief Programs: FTC Guidance on Avoiding the Scams

The second major rounds of small business and personal relief programs are open for business, and the demand remains very high.  In response to the breathtaking impact on the economy during the pandemic, hundreds of billions of federal aid dollars are moving through loans in the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster […]

Illinois Government Responses to Covid-19 Updated 5/5/2020

Today’s update discusses: ECONOMY Today Governor Pritzker announced “Restore Illinois,” a five-stage regional plan for reopening businesses as the COVID-19 curve begins to flatten. This plan marks a change from the Governor’s prior statement that he was not considering treating the different regions of the state differently. The plan divides the state into four regions—northeast, […]