Happy Fourth of July week to all!!! I will spend this holiday weekend as I have many previous years…playing on a ballfield. Here’s a piece of July 4-connected Elmhurst trivia for you: The last city-sponsored fireworks show took place in 1986 as part of Elmhurst’s Sesquicentennial Celebration (150 years), but that was not our community’s fireworks finale. Watch Elmhurst TV’s 2017 retrospective, “Elmfest Gone, But Not Forgotten,” if you don’t already know.
While willingly adhering to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s “Stay at Home” Executive Order May 30 extension, business leaders and elected officials across our state are speaking out in opposition to a longer-than-expected timeline within the Governor’s five-phase Restore Illinois plan developed in partnership with the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH).
While striving to adhere to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s “Stay at Home” Executive Order May 30 extension, our Chamber will continue to work diligently (and safely) to help Elmhurst businesses both sustain operations financially and keep their workforce employed during the health care and economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic.
While striving to adhere to the City of Elmhurst’s “Stay Home, Save Lives” mandate as best we can, all of us—small businesses and not-for-profit organizations alike—are working diligently (and safely) to both sustain operations financially and keep our workforce employed during the health care and economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic.
As I presumed in my second Special President’s Message Update on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic e-mailed to you (and posted on YouTube) on March 27, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker on March 30 extended his “Stay at Home” Executive Order through the end of the month of April. “Stay at Home” first went into effect on March 21—following the April 17 shutdown of restaurants and bars—and was initially scheduled to last through April 7.