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Grundy County Board members are pushing to be moved to another region in Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s "Restore Illinois" plan.
Board members unanimously voted in favor of a resolution calling for Grundy County to be moved out of a region with Cook County and into the North-Central Health region.
As of May 22, Illinois reported 105,444 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, including 4,715 deaths. Grundy County has 84 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
Pritzker’s five-phase plan for fully restarting the state economy is based on a region-by-region map, where areas are only allowed to move to the next phase of the plan based on how the entire region is faring in the battle to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. The earliest any region can move to Phase 3 of the governor’s plan is the end of May, or more than two months after he first enacted his statewide stay-at-home order.
Grundy County Board Chairman Chris Balkema said the board will send the resolution, along with the public comments, to Pritzker’s office and wait for his response.
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