With constant COVID closures, parents with kids in day care are at their wit’s end: ‘I honestly don’t know how we keep doing this.’

Toddlers Ingrid Breiseth, front, Griffin Covacci, left, and Helena Pompei play under the supervision of Mercedez Gonzales at an apartment in Chicago Jan. 13, 2022. Some parents got their children together in a pod to share child care temporarily after their Little Einstein’s Daycare classroom closed. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)