Lake County Enters Phase 4 Covid-19 Mitigations

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced Region 9 (Lake, McHenry) is moving to Phase 4 of the Restore Illinois Plan effective today. Additional information about which tier and phase regions are in can be found at the top of the IDPH website homepage.

A Phase 4 Guidelines Overview can be found on the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity website.

Phase 4 Guidelines include the following:
Restaurants and Bars

Indoor dining and drinking now permitted for parties of up to 10 people
Seated areas should be arranged so that tables allow for 6 feet between parties; impermeable barriers may be installed between booths which are less than 6 feet apart

Retail and Service Counter

Continue capacity limit of no more than 50% occupancy

Personal Care

Continue capacity limit of no more than 50% occupancy

Indoor/Outdoor Recreation

Reopening select indoor recreation facilities (e.g., bowling alleys, skating rinks); indoor playgrounds and trampoline parks should remain closed
Indoor recreation to operate at lesser of 50 customers or 50% of facility capacity

Museums

Capacity limit of no more than 25% occupancy
Guided tours should be limited to 50 or fewer people per group

Meetings and Social Events

Limit to the lesser of 50 people or 50% of room capacity
Multiple groups may meet in the same facility if they are socially distanced and in separate rooms

IDPH will continue to closely monitor test positivity, ICU bed availability, and the number of people in the hospital with COVID-19. Should data show regions trending in the wrong direction, based on the established mitigation metrics, regions could once again find themselves in a higher tier with increased measures.

Update Your AllVax Portal Information

Lake County’s AllVax Portal has updated its registration screening questions based on new CDC and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) guidelines regarding frontline essential workers. It also has included a box to check that will allow Lake County to share your information with other local vaccine providers. Please log in to the AllVax Portal to update your information. Click the ‘Edit Info’ pencil next to your name.

Dine Out For Deerfield Is Back

Help support our local Deerfield restaurants by ordering take out or curbside (in person dining as well, where allowable) during the month of February and you could win a gift card to a Deerfield restaurant of your choice.

Email a copy of your Deerfield restaurant receipt in the amount of $25 or more to info@dbrchamber.com and you’ll be entered for a chance to win one of four $25 gift cards to a Deerfield restaurant of your choice each week in February. There’s no limit on the number of entries you can submit. The winners will be announced on Saturday of each week.

Dine Out for Deerfield is a partnership of the Village of Deerfield and the DBR Chamber of Commerce.