Breitbart | The deep blue state of Illinois is beginning to revolt against the
nation’s strictest coronavirus lockdowns even as those in charge seek to
strengthen their power.
Some of the more outrageous examples of overreach are seen in the City
of Chicago, where Mayor Lori Lightfoot has fenced in the city’s
extensive lakeshore areas and even created newly designated no parking
zones around churches to prevent worshipers from attending services.
Last Sunday, the city’s first gay mayor sent
the Chicago Police Department (CPD) out to erect new signs around the
neighborhood of Philadelphia Romanian Church to suddenly create long
stretches of new “No parking/tow warning” zones around the building.
Lightfoot also sent the CPD to prowl around outside several of the city’s churches to hand out parking violations, Chicago’s CBS affiliate reported.
The mayor’s campaign against churches comes on the heels of
statements by several church officials across the city saying they had
no intention of submitting to the mayor’s orders to shut down their
houses of worship.
The Windy City is not the only Illinois jurisdiction instituting the
draconian lockdowns that are riling citizens. The state’s novice
Governor, J.B. Pritzker, has also dabbled in harsh lockdowns that have
stifled the state.
Indeed, a recent review of lockdown policies by the personal finance site WalletHub found Illinois has the harshest lockdown policies in the country.
As a result, the Windy City citizens are not the only Illinoisans who have revolted against the Democrat-enforced lockdowns.
A growing number of county and municipal officials are coming out in
opposition to Gov. Pritzker’s seemingly arbitrary orders. Pritzker ruled
businesses that violated his orders could be handed a prison sentence of up to a year for refusing to obey him. But many balked at the order.
Sheriff James Mendrick of DuPage County, Illinois, for instance, told
his constituents he had no intention of enforcing Pritzker’s order to
fine and arrest violators of the gov’s lockdown orders.
“I just can’t do this anymore. I stand with our citizens and
businesses of DuPage County who have offered no trouble or no resistance
to any rule we put upon them, no matter how strange.,” Sheriff Mendrick
wrote in a Facebook post.
