CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is asking the owners of all the state’s major sports teams’ owners to cancel games or play without fans until May 1 in another move to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
Pritzker said during a news conference that he also is mandating events of 1,000 or more people be canceled or postponed immediately and requested that events of 250 people be canceled or postponed as well.
Pritzker said he is not ordering schools to close “but we are monitoring the situation on a day to day basis.” Pritzker also says he is asking every private business that is able to have employees work remotely to consider doing so immediately.
