These Illinois Restaurants, Bars, Malls Are Reopening: List

ILLINOIS — The entire state, except for the City of Chicago, moved into phase 3 of the Restore Illinois coronavirus reopening plan on Friday, allowing bars and restaurants to open for outdoor dining, along with salons, barbershops and other businesses previously deemed "nonessential."

Businesses are required to enforce social distancing and implement new rules, including requiring wait staff to wear masks and spacing tables at least 6 feet apart and away from sidewalks.

Restore Illinois Phase 3 Coronavirus Business Guidelines Released

Here's what's reopening Friday outside the City of Chicago, which isn't scheduled to move into the next phase until Wednesday:

• Offices and manufacturing
• Bar and restaurant patios for outdoor dining
• Barbershops, hair salons and nail salons
• State parks and tennis courts, camping sites
• Gatherings of 10 people or fewer for any reason
• Retail stores
• Health clubs/fitness centers — one-on-one personal training; outdoor group fitness classes of 10 patrons or fewer
• Youth sports (drills only, no contact sports), day camps

IL Reopening: Businesses Ready, Many Customers Anxious

As restaurants and bars reopen, here are the local businesses offering outdoor dining (lists will be updated as additional businesses reopen):

• Algonquin
• Arlington Heights
• Barrington
• Burr Ridge
• Crystal Lake
• Darien
• Evanston
• Frankfort
• Highland Park/Highwood
• Homer Glen/Lockport
• Joliet area (Romeoville, Bolingbrook, Channahon, Minooka, Morris, Wilmington, Crest Hill)
• La Grange
• Lake Forest/Lake Bluff
• Lake County
• Lemont
• Manhattan
• Mokena
• Naperville
• New Lenox
• Northbrook
• Oak Forest
• Oak Lawn
• Palatine
• Plainfield (list coming soon)
• Romeoville
• Skokie
• St. Charles
• Western Springs
• Wilmette
• Winnetka-Northfield

Malls reopening:

• Fox Valley Mall
• Hawthorn Mall
• Northbrook Court
• Old Orchard Shopping Center
• Promenade Bolingbrook
• Woodfield Mall

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