At 5 PM Saturday, March 21, Governor J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 Executive Order No. 8, aka the Stay at Home order, took effect. Here’s a daily-ish journal of how Reader staff, our friends, family—and our pets—are spending our time.

  • All the John Prine

  • The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong  (podcast by Chicago writer Mark Chrisler)

  • Birds on the telephone line outside the window

What we’re watching: