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Many Illinois consumers will find fewer choices because major carriers fled this market. UnitedHealthcare bolted. So did Aetna. Land of Lincoln Health collapsed mid-year, leaving policy holders to scramble for coverage that could cost them plenty. In many places across Illinois and the nation, people will find drastically fewer choices of plans than they did last year.
Springfield Clinic officials now are discussing the possibility of taking the unprecedented step of asking patients covered by the State Employees Group Insurance Program to pay more of the cost of their care upfront or bill those patients for costs the state normally would pay, Kuhn said Friday.
When the CHA began tearing down crime-ridden high-rise public housing projects like Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes under its massive “Plan for Transformation,” residents were promised a better life. But 20 years later, many of the people receiving housing vouchers from the CHA are living in privately owned homes and apartments on blocks plagued by violence, drug dealing and gangs..
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By: Mark Glennon* William Isaac knows insolvency when he sees it, and how to deal with it. As Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 1981 to 1985, he was on the forefront of the banking crisis at the time. He founded The Secura Group, a leading consulting firm in financial regulation, and is a respected voice in the world of finance. Bankruptcy, not just for Chicago, but for Illinois as well, he says. “The city and the state should act now to restructure their liabilities and put the fiscal mess behind them. This can be accomplished by
Many of the “economic injury disaster loans” went to travel-related businesses whose futures were shaky after the terrorist attacks. But other, seemingly random businesses received them too — a downtown car wash, a North Michigan Avenue skin care center, and suburban restaurants.
The tax hike would increase the cost of washing a load by 30 to 40 cents, and said that would have to be passed on to customers.
The number of these ill-kept structures brought on by the housing crisis has spiked more than 90 percent over a year ago, according to a new report from Attom Data Solutions.
Children in the state’s welfare system are being warehoused in psychiatric hospitals and emergency shelters hundreds of days longer than they should be in many cases because the agency does not have a place for them, a new report found.
The move cost Illinois 125 to 150 manufacturing jobs. “Overall, we look for the best place to locate for our manufacturing,” stated Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Joel Warady “Finding a manufacturing-friendly state was part of the process.”
You are not unique enough. A Chicago federal judge said so on Wednesday. You deserve a lesser voice than Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan and all of his special committees. That makes sense, because Madigan has so little opportunity to make his views known compared to you, right?
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