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   From: bksherman@latimes.com   
      
   A mayor of a small Illinois city threatened arrests for   
   violators of the state’s state-at-home order during the   
   coronavirus outbreak — only for his wife to be busted at a bar   
   the following night.   
      
   Brant Walker, mayor of Alton, Illinois, said in a briefing on   
   Friday: “These are very serious times and I’m begging you to   
   please stay at home … I have directed the police department to   
   use their discretion in issuing citations or making arrests for   
   those refusing to follow the state-issued stay-at-home mandate.”   
      
   Less than 48 hours later, police found Walker’s wife, Shannon at   
   Hiram’s Tavern in downtown Alston when they broke up an illicit   
   gathering in the watering hole around 1 a.m. Sunday, the mayor   
   admitted in a statement.   
      
   The mayor apologized to the city, saying he was “embarrassed”   
   and that his wife had exhibited a “stunning lack of judgment.”   
      
   “I instructed the Police Chief to treat her as he would any   
   citizen violating the ‘Stay At Home’ order and to ensure that   
   she received no special treatment,” Walker said.   
      
   Illinois’ order prohibits public and private gatherings of any   
   number of people outside a single household or living unit.   
      
   But Alton Police Department had received several complaints that   
   the tavern was continuing to operate on weekends, the department   
   said in a statement.   
      
   Walker’s wife was discovered among “several” people “located   
   inside Hiram’s Tavern in an area outside public view, clearly   
   disregarding the executive order and public pleas for   
   compliance,” the department said.   
      
   Criminal complaints for reckless conduct were issued “against   
   every person found gathering at the bar,” police said. Each will   
   be summoned to court with a Class A misdemeanor charge carrying   
   up to 364 days in jail and a fine of $,2500.   
      
   They were the first complaints doled out under Gov. J.B.   
   Pritzker’s order announced back on March 20, The Telegraph in   
   Alton reported.   
      
   The bar’s owner, Hiram Y. Lewis, faces additional, unrelated   
   charges, according to police.   
      
   Lewis was taken into custody and transported to the Alton Jail   
   on an active warrant for his arrest out of Madison County for   
   domestic battery.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/illinois-mayor-cracks-down-on-   
   gatherings-then-his-wife-is-caught-at-a-bar/   
        
      
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