When Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was feeling a bit shaggy last month, and concerned that she had to look her best for the press briefings in which she scolds her constituents for gathering with friends or engaging in commerce, she procured something that would have been illegal for any other Chicagoan: a haircut.

Of course, Lightfoot had to call in a traveling hairstylist, who certainly did not stand 6 feet from the close-cropped mayor, because Lightfoot had ordered all barbershops and hair salons closed throughout the city in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus.