Chicago’s Essential Workers Are Getting Sick. Employers And The City Aren’t Doing Enough To Protect Them, Advocates Say

BELMONT CRAGIN — Coronavirus swept through Sonia’s entire family. Her oldest son, an essential worker, caught the virus in November. He’d been carpooling with a co-worker who got sick. Then the rest of the family tested positive: Sonia; her husband, also an essential worker; their two teenage sons; and their oldest son’s girlfriend. Everyone but the girlfriend lives together […]