Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lashed out at President Trump on Friday as "foolish" after he deemed all churches and synagogues and places of worship as "essential."
Lightfoot says President Trump has no power to override her local lockdown on churches and businesses.
Chicago police fined three churches last weekend for holding worship services.
South Side Churches cheered President Trump's announcement on Friday.
Courtney Lewis, the pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Chicago, was in the middle of his sermon when he heard loud banging on front doors. It was the police and they were denied entry into the sanctuary
Mayor Lori Lightfoot had dispatched