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  • Pritzker details contact tracing pilot effort, defends misdemeanor emergency rule

    Jerry Nowicki and Ben Orner, Capitol News Illinois|Updated May 19, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday announced the launch of Illinois’ contact tracing program and defended an emergency rule filed Friday to allow for misdemeanor charges against businesses defying his stay-at-home order. The contact-tracing effort for COVID-19 — one that is required to move the state along the governor’s “Restore Illinois” reopening plan — will begin in two pilot counties. Pritzker said contact tracing, which was used early on in the state’s coronavirus outbreak when the number of cases was manageably...