Lightfoot to use empty hotel rooms for isolation and quarantine spaces

Rent thousands of rooms in empty downtown hotels and reopen a shuttered hospital to isolate patients who test positive for the coronavirus.

Mayor Lightfoot Announces Large Scale Efforts to Develop A System ...

Chicago is leading the way by using underutilized hotel space to provide quarantine and isolation capacity as part of a broader public health ...

More Than 1000 Chicago Hotel Rooms to be Used as Quarantine ...

More than 1000 hotel rooms will be rented by the city of Chicago to be used as quarantine and isolation sites for potential coronavirus ...

Empty hotels 'keep the lights on' by converting into coronavirus ...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced last month that the city began to rent out 200 “underutilized” rooms from Hotel One Sixty-Six to provide a space ...

Chicago rents thousands of hotel rooms for those who can't home ...

Chicago is one the first cities to implement a program that turns vacant hotel rooms into isolation spaces like this. As healthcare facilities ...

Local governments turn to hotels to help fight the pandemic

Cities are renting hotel rooms to use for additional hospital beds, space for medical professionals, and shelter for the homeless.

City, state plan to use hotel rooms for quarantine, isolation

The Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association said more than 12000 rooms have been identified statewide that can be used, and the number is ...

Chicago plans to rent thousands of hotel rooms for coronavirus ...

By Tuesday, the city will have more than 1,000 rooms in a combined five Chicago hotels available to isolate people who are mildly ill with COVID ...

Chicago reserving hotels for isolation or quarantine needs

The city of Chicago plans to reserve thousands of hotel rooms ... 2024 Best Places to Work Program. November 21st, 2024 | 6:00 PM. The ...

Chicago uses hotels for quarantine to ease hospital demand

at least 1000 hotel rooms through partnerships with five hotels is ... “We need to build this excess network of other spaces so we can take ...

Hotels being converted into coronavirus hospitals and shelters - CNN

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Monday that America's third-largest city would set aside 1,000 rooms in five hotels to isolate people who ...

Lightfoot announces hotel plan for at-risk individuals; U. of C ...

The mayor said that 1,000 rooms would be available by Tuesday, with 2,000 free at the end of the week. Hotel One Sixty-Six is one of the ...

15,000 U.S. Hotels Offer Rooms for Coronavirus Emergency Services

Chicago officials struck a deal with five hotels to provide 2,000 rooms for residents with mild cases of coronavirus to self-isolate while they ...

Chicago to Rent Thousands of Hotel Rooms for Coronavirus Patients

To free up hospital space and keep the hotel industry afloat during the coronavirus outbreak, Chicago will rent empty hotel rooms across the ...

Chicago reserving hotels for isolation or quarantine needs - AP News

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city plans to reserve thousands of hotel rooms for people with mild cases of the coronavirus and ...

Coronavirus Patients, People Who Are Homeless To Move Into ...

The city plans to rent thousands of hotel rooms as part of the first-of-its-kind program, which is in partnership with five hotels, Lightfoot ...

Thousands Of Hotels Offer Rooms For COVID-19 Patients - Law360

... hotels rented by the city, Lightfoot said. "Individuals will complete their quarantine or isolation period in their hotel room, under monitoring by city ...

Chicago is turning empty hotel rooms into temporary coronavirus ...

Indeed, Chicago is planning to do just this. Hotels are standing empty as tourism has come to a halt. So city and state officials are partnering ...

Convention Centers and Hotels Become Coronavirus Emergency ...

Hotels as Isolation Spaces for Possible COVID-19 Cases, Homeless Population ... More than 1,000 of Chicago's hotel rooms will provide a ...

Mayor Lightfoot Announces New Partnership with Hotel Essex to ...

CHICAGO – Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot today announced a new agreement with Chicago hotel operator, Oxford Capital Group for temporary respite ...