Lori Lightfoot: “I'm determined. I'm resolute, I've said enough is enough. And we're going to get our kids back to in-person learning.”

Unfortunately, some people like to politicize the pandemic. And that's not just something that happens on one side of the political divide.

I get that people are scared. This Omicron surge is real. And we're doing everything that we can across our city to mitigate it.

We've got to make sure that we use every tool in our toolkit. And it's -- soft power is more, much more effective than the hard power of law enforcement for this particular problem.

We're in a good, I think, a place with both our Governor and the White House.