CHICAGO UNIVERSITY COVID-19 ELEVATOR ADJUSTMENTS

Using freight elevators to move students and staff through buildings is among adjustments universities in downtown Chicago are considering to limit the spread of COVID-19, WBEZ reports. Using freight elevators for passengers is being mulled at Loyola University Chicago near Water Tower Place. Officials at National Louis University, which has buildings of six and seven floors across from the Art Institute of Chicago, are directing students and staff to use the stairs if they are able and limit elevator capacity to two. At Columbia College in the South Loop, four students are allowed per elevator, and each must stand in a corner and wear a facemask. As schools are set to open in the fall, what was once a selling point — higher learning in multistory buildings in the heart of the city — has, for the moment, turned into a liability, the source observes.