Sangamon County enacts full COVID mitigations; four restaurants cited for indoor service

Springfield and Sangamon County enacted full COVID-19 mitigation measures Friday, just days after local elected officials acknowledged that an earlier “phased” plan that allowed indoor dining and bar service to continue in defiance of Gov. JB Pritzker’s orders had failed to contain the spread of the virus.With COVID-19 cases in the region growing at one of the fastest rates in the country, city and county officials said to expect “serious enforcement” of the new mitigation […]