SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White announced yesterday his office's reopening plan with the first two months focused on serving only new drivers, customers with expired driver's licenses/ID cards, and vehicle transactions.
Currently there are more than 700,000 expired driver's licenses/ID cards and 1.9 million expired vehicle registrations.
All Secretary of State departments and offices will be open for business on June 1.
Local Driver Services facilities are set to open statewide on June 2. The hours of operation are Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to noon.
For the first two months through July 31, these facilities will only serve new drivers, customers with expired driver's licenses and ID cards, and vehicle transactions.
For all other services, please refer to the various departments listed on www.cyberdriveillinois.com.
"Throughout this pandemic, my commitment has been to do everything we can to help protect the health and safety of our residents and my employees, while providing services to the people of Illinois," said White. "This reopening plan adheres to this commitment."
Customers and Secretary of State employees will be required to wear face masks unless a medical condition prohibits the safe use of a mask. Plexiglass dividers have been installed at all work stations and tape has been applied to the floor in 6-foot intervals to follow social distancing guidelines, limiting the number of customers inside a facility at one time.
For drive tests, employees will wear a face mask and a face shield due to the close proximity with the customer inside the vehicle. Customers will be required to wear face masks unless medically unable.
Disposable plastic will be used to cover the vehicle seats during the drive test and then discarded immediately after the conclusion of the drive test.
White continues to encourage residents to go to www.cyberdriveillinois.com to take advantage of many online services, such as renewing vehicle registration stickers, from the comfort of their own home.
