Chicago police block access to the Lake Shore Drive pedestrian bridge leading to the Lakefront Trail at North Avenue Beach as the city closes the area to pedestrians amid fears of the coronavirus pandemic, Thursday morning, March 26, 2020. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
March 27, 2020
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March 27, 2020 11:34 a.m.
Lack of social distancing leads to closure of parks, trails
OAK PARK, Ill. (AP) — It was a sunny day, the first in about a week when temperatures had climbed past the 50-degree mark, and people in Chicago did what they always do on such a day: They flocked to the shores of Lake Michigan.