Illinois officials provide guidance for return to in-person classes this fall

Students will be back in class in the fall, but school won’t be quite the same.

The director of the Illinois Department of Public Health expects Illinois to be in Phase 4 of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s, which begins Friday and allows for in-person classes, for some time. It’s unclear when there would be a widely-available and effective treatment for COVID-19. A treatment or vaccine would allow the state to advance to Phase 5 of the governor’s reopening plan.