Some employees at an Illinois Secretary of State motor-vehicle facility in Jefferson Park are worried that they may have been exposed to coronvirus, and they question why only half the facility was shut down this week.
There was a COVID-infected employee of the Driver Services section of the facility in the 5400 block of North Elston. That’s the section that deals with licenses and ID cards.
Secretary of State Spokesman Dave Druker on Wednesday said employees of that section will quarantine for two weeks as a precaution, and it won’t reopen until Nov. 21.
The other half of the facility is Vehicle Services — license plates and stickers — and it is open.
“We’ve done a very thorough job of sanitizing and disinfecting the whole building on both sides, and with our contact tracing it didn’t appear that there was any extended contact with anybody on the vehicle side,” Druker said.
But as one employee of the vehicle side told us, “We all share the same air, rest rooms and lunch room.”
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