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To prepare businesses and employers to implement new and updated safety guidelines in Phase 4, the State of Illinois has developed this business toolkit complete with signage, posters, and other resources to ensure business and activities are conducted in accordance with the latest public health recommendations.
Phase 4 guidelines include five new industry categories and updated recommendations for the existing categories from Phase 3. Each set of guidelines includes a common set of guidelines that are expected and encouraged among all employers and activity types, as well as workplace and program-specific guidelines.
See an overview of the Phase 4 changes here.
What you need to know about reopened businesses guidelines:
This section is applicable to businesses that meet the following criteria:
Hotel meeting rooms and ballrooms, as well as other indoor and outdoor event venues. Excludes arenas, stadiums, and other mass gathering venues.
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This section is applicable to businesses that meet the following criteria:
Customer-facing establishments primarily engaged in providing indoor and outdoor recreational and amusement services.
Examples of indoor and outdoor recreation businesses include (non-exhaustive): arcades, bingo halls, bowling alleys, escape rooms, ice skating, roller skating, laser tag, driving ranges, outdoor shooting ranges, paintball courses, and outdoor adventure parks
Amusement parks, trampoline parks and indoor playgrounds should remain closed.
Water parks and recreational swimming will be allowed to reopen in accordance with guidance published by IDPH
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The IDPH provides the following safety guidance for retail restaurant and bar establishments. To prevent exposure to and the spread of COVID-19 the Department provides the following guidance. Additional guidance may be needed as COVID-19 outbreak conditions change, including as new information about the virus, its transmission, and impacts, becomes available.
At this time, restaurant and bar establishments are allowed to resume indoor dining operations, as included in part of Governor Pritzker’s “Restore Illinois” plan. The Restore Illinois plan breaks the State up into 4 different regions, each of which will be evaluated based on several metrics individually to determine which Phase of recovery that region is in. To determine what phase each region of the State is in, please visit the following link: Phase of Restore Illinois. Once the region in which a retail restaurant and bar establishment is located is promoted to Phase IV of the recovery, operations can resume following this IDPH Restaurant and Bar Establishment Reopening Safety Guidance.
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This section is applicable to businesses that meet the following criteria:
Seated theaters, cinemas, and performing arts centers primarily engaged in showing live or pre-recorded performances.
Examples of productions shown by theaters and cinema businesses include (non-exhaustive): plays, musicals, orchestras, operas, comedy/ improvisational shows, movies, pre-recorded events.
These guidelines apply to ticketed events with seating available for all customers; general admission shows and/or events without seating (e.g., standing room only) are not permitted at this time.
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This section is applicable to businesses that meet the following criteria:
Organizations operating recreational sport activities.
Examples of youth and recreational sports include (non-exhaustive): competitive sports games or matches, competitive tournaments, group sports lessons, team or group sports practices.
In Phase IV, youth and recreational sports activities include drills, practices, lessons, and competitive gameplay, such as tournaments
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This section is applicable to businesses that meet the following criteria:
Non-customer-facing facilities engaged in the mechanical, physical, or chemical transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products.
Examples of manufacturing facilities include (non-exhaustive): plants, factories, and mills.
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This section is applicable to businesses that meet the following criteria:
Conduct operations from within non-customer-facing office spaces (standalone and within multi-tenant buildings)
Examples of businesses operating within offices include (non-exhaustive): legal services, accounting services, and architectural/engineering design.
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This section is applicable to businesses that meet the following criteria:
Customer-facing stores engaged in retailing merchandise and services.
Examples of retail include (non-exhaustive): grocery stores, hardware stores, clothing stores, pharmacies, department stores, shopping malls
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This section is applicable to businesses that meet the following criteria:
Customer-facing stores providing assorted services for dropped off goods.
Examples of service counters include (non-exhaustive): dry cleaners, electronics repair shops, shoe repair shops, and car washes.
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This section is applicable to businesses that meet the following criteria:
Customer-facing facilities engaged in health and fitness services.
Examples of health and fitness centers include (non-exhaustive): gyms; fitness centers; yoga, dance, cycling, pilates, and barre studios.
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This section is applicable to businesses that meet the following criteria:
Hair salons, hair braiders, barber shops, nail salons, spas, massage therapy clinics, waxing centers, tattoo parlors, tanning salons, hair club services, other providers of personal care services, and salons operated by schools of barber, cosmetology, esthetics, hair braiding, and nail technology.
In Phase IV, services for personal care should be limited to:
Services which can be performed while customer and employee are wearing a face covering over their nose and mouth.
If services require customer to remove his or her mask, employee must wear both a face mask and eye protection (e.g., face shield, protective glasses).
In Phase IV, use of hair dryers and blow dry services are allowed.
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