MAYBE THAT'S WHY MAYOR LIGHTFOOT IS THREATENING LIQUOR STORES AND FRISBEE PLAYERS WITH FINES.

Empty streets mean idle red-light cameras – and budget holes.

The Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative nonprofit think tank, estimated in 2017 that Chicago generated $54.4 million in revenue from red-light cameras.

“In terms of the whole city budget it’s a small piece, there’s absolutely no question, but that translates into a healthcare clinic, that translates into enrichment programs,” said Kent Redfield, an emeritus political science professor at the University of Illinois Springfield.

Chicago’s red-light camera program began in 2003 and the General Assembly approved legislation to allow them in the suburbs in 2006. While municipal officials have said the cameras are about public safety, critics of the red-lights contend they are more about generating money for local municipal budgets.

Yes, and those drones with the Voice of Big Brother telling you to get off the beach are For Your Own Good, too.  "The story goes on to present other manifestations of Expertise Hiding Behind Credentials (Shut Up, Peasant) in a way that suggests being skeptical of Technocratic Visions isn't necessarily problematic."  The extension to the current shutdown of ordinary life and the retrieval of what can be retrieved is straightforward.