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Protesters call for mask optional schools outside of Glenbrook North High School on Feb. 11, 2022 in Northbrook.
Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune
Protesters call for mask optional schools outside of Glenbrook North High School on Feb. 11, 2022 in Northbrook.
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Just days after Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the state’s mask mandate would soon be lifted, but not at Illinois schools, hundreds of parents on both sides of the widening divide joined forces at increasingly polarized protests Friday in Chicago and the suburbs.