Illinois is among states with COVID emergency orders in place😡

What a ‘state of emergency’ declaration does👇

Money and messaging are not the only reason a governor makes such a declaration. It also allows governors to sidestep certain federal and state laws.
An example: it temporarily frees up the state from complying with everything from federal transportation laws to meeting quorum requirements for public meetings of health officials

For instance, the declaration suspends certain regulations to allow state agencies and school districts to move around competitive bidding processes to do things like buy cleaning supplies. It temporarily changed licensing regulations that usually protect who can conduct a test for something like coronavirus. It gave the state health commissioner new powers to alter the state’s sanitary code

It makes it easier for local governments to make their own emergency proclamations

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