Lori Lightfoot: “This is straight out of Richard Nixon's 1968 playbook, except the demographic and our time to change mightily.”

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.

The White House says they've been in touch with both you and the governor to quote, assess your needs.

This is an unnecessary and illegal work stoppage. And I've drawn the line, we are not going to remote for the whole system. It's completely unnecessary.