Springfield restaurants grapple with role in COVID-19 as hospitals fill up

The same week Great House BBQ celebrated its one-year anniversary, they had to start turning away dine-in customers for the second time within that period.Gov. JB Pritzker ordered indoor bar and restaurant service closed effective Nov. 1 in the region that includes Springfield on account of spiking COVID-19 positivity rates.The family-owned business was “still trying to recover financially” from the first shutdown, which lasted from mid-March through June, acknowledged […]