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Lightfoot made the comments in a televised interview on PBS Tuesday

After Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot publicly called on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to reconsider new restrictions on the city, announced after it reached the threshold to automatically trigger additional mitigations, Pritzker's office said the state was not inclined to make exceptions to its guidelines.

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'Unfortunately, the virus doesn’t make exceptions, and it would be ill-advised to make exceptions to the rules we put in place as the best mitigations to stop the spread,' a spokeswoman for the governor said in a statement.

'As the CDC has noted, bars and restaurants are major places of transmission risk. We’ll continue to provide support to businesses that are hard hit through our $630 million in grants,' she continued.

Pritzker and state health officials announced the new restrictions Wednesday, which will take effect Friday, shutting down indoor dining and bar service, as well as limiting the total number of people allowed to attend gatherings in the city at 25.

Chicago, which is Region 11 of the state's 11 regions, is now the seventh region which will see increased mitigations under the state's guidelines after surpassing the threshold required.

In an interview Wednesday evening, Lightfoot called on Pritzker to reconsider the restrictions.

“I'm not sure that we're reaching the right people with the restrictions that are going to be imposed by the state and that's my concern,” she said.

Speaking on PBS’ “NewsHour,” Lightfoot said she was “very concerned” about the new regulations, warning they could have a massive impact on businesses in the city that are struggling amid the pandemic.

“If the governor’s order goes into effect, it’s really effectively shutting down a significant portion of our economy at a time when those same businesses are really hanging on by a thread,” she said. “So we’re going to try to continue our engagement with the governor and his team, but it’s not looking good.

“If we can’t convince him that other metrics should apply, then the shutdown unfortunately is going to take effect starting Friday,” she added.

Lightfoot was asked if she disagreed with the Pritzker administration’s decision-making, saying that the governor’s office should look at other metrics to help make determinations on where new restrictions should be implemented.

“I think that we’ve got to look at what our metrics are,” she said. “No question we’re seeing an uptick in cases, and we’re also seeing positivity (rates) going up, but hospitalizations are not at the breaking point like we feared back in the spring, and I think that’s an important metric. We’ve gotta be very surgical in the way we impose these new restrictions.”

Currently, the city of Chicago is seeing a positivity rate of 7.8%, which is under the state’s threshold to impose new restrictions. While hospitalizations have increased in the city on seven of the last 10 days, hospital bed availability in the event of a surge in COVID-19 patients has risen slightly in recent days, now sitting at 25%.

While Pritzker and IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike have presented research that shows bars and restaurants are one of the primary locations where coronavirus is spreading, Lightfoot warned that the greater challenge is posed by what individuals are doing in their own homes.

“The truth is that where we're seeing the greatest challenges is in people's homes, in social settings that are not public,” she said. “That's harder to regulate to be sure but that's at least in Chicago where we're seeing the challenges. Two-thirds of the people that are testing positive and are talking to our case investigators are telling us that they got it from somebody that they knew and that they got it in a home or other social setting that's not in public.”

Lightfoot says her administration is looking to take “additional steps” to address concerns about gatherings in the homes of residents.

CHICAGO (CBS) — President Donald Trump directly targeted Gov. JB Pritzker in a tweet Sunday, criticizing his response to the federal government’s actions dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired back, criticizing President Trump’s rhetoric and leadership.

In a tweet Trump wrote that Pritzker “shouldn’t be blaming the Federal Government for their own shortcomings. We are there to back you up should you fail, and always will be!”

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.@JBPritzker, Governor of Illinois, and a very small group of certain other Governors, together with Fake News @CNN & Concast (MSDNC), shouldn’t be blaming the Federal Government for their own shortcomings. We are there to back you up should you fail, and always will be!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 22, 2020

It did not take long for the governor to respond.

Pritzker wrote, “You wasted precious months when you could’ve taken action to protect Americans & Illinoisans … Get off Twitter & do your job.”

You wasted precious months when you could've taken action to protect Americans & Illinoisans.

You should be leading a national response instead of throwing tantrums from the back seat.

Where were the tests when we needed them?

Where's the PPE?

Get off Twitter & do your job. https://t.co/WESJITCAwg

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— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) March 22, 2020

Lightfoot also got into the debate writing, “dear Lord–please step up and be a leader. While you have been yammering about hoaxes and fake news, the COVID-19 pandemic has hit all over America. @GovPritzker and others have filled this country’s leadership gap. Lead or get out of their way.”

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.@realDonaldTrump, dear Lord—please step up and be a leader. While you have been yammering about hoaxes and fake news, the COVID-19 pandemic has hit all over America. @GovPritzker and others have filled this country’s leadership gap. Lead or get out of their way. https://t.co/36yxpiPS5s

— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) March 22, 2020

This comes after Pritzker and Lightfoot criticized President Trump’s leadership when long lines of people were forced to wait for COVID-19 screening at O’Hare International Airport before being allowed out on March 14.

Lightfoot called the situation “utterly unacceptable” and blasted the federal leadership.

“If you do not listen, and you do not bring us along on the journey first … you’re going to see more disasters like last night that are solely the responsibility of the federal government not listening,” she said at the time.

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The screenings were taking place after President Trump announced a 30 day travel ban on European countries to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

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Gov. JB Pritzker also called out the president that night in a tweet. He wrote that the long lines and crowds are “unacceptable” and that this needs to be addressed immediately. Pritzker blamed the federal government, writing, “To the frustrated people trying to get home, I have spoken with the mayor and our Senators and we are working together to get the federal government to act to solve this.”