Grayslake Aquatic Center Will Not Open This Summer

GRAYSLAKE, IL — The Esper A. Peterson Foundation Family Aquatic Center will not open this summer. The Grayslake Village Board voted last week to keep the aquatic center closed this year after village staff took into consideration the many many logistical challenges they'd face to open and stay within guidelines set up under Gov. J.B. Pritzker's Restore Illinois plan, according to a Grayslake Aquatic Center Facebook post.

The state is currently in Phase 3 of Pritzker's reopening plan, which allows for only 10 people to gather. And makes "it effectively impossible to staff the facility and still have guests," according to the aquatic center.

And, even with the state currently on track to enter Phase 4 next week, there is still only a maximum gathering of 50 people allowed, which would "still makes it effectively impossible to fully staff the facility and have guests," according to the Facebook post.

"With the logistical challenges of planning in this changing environment, the limits on gatherings and social distancing requirements (6 feet distances and required face masks) per Governor Pritzker's orders, the uncertainty of when we will move through the phases and what phases pools would be allowed to fully open in, the Village Board elected to keep the aquatic center closed for the season," according to aquatic center officials.