Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to require healthy drink options with kids’ meals is already taking effect statewide thanks to new Illinois law

“What’s happening, and I think the concern (the health department) had, was those meals, those kids’ meals, were reflexively being given really high-caloric, very high sugary drinks, like sodas … like Slurpee-type drinks,” Lightfoot said. “What we want is to give kids healthy things.”