Real estate developers and urban planners increasingly are casting their glances backward to create communities for tomorrow.
“Work means truth. Work means to me, today: I’m a positive, productive, functional member of society.”
Illinois candidates for state and federal office have received nearly $3 million in contributions from the makers of prescription painkillers since 2006. Overdose deaths from prescription painkillers have soared since 2000, claiming the lives of 165,000 people in the U.S. In recent years.
Two new reports, one from a video gaming association and the other from a state economic-forecasting group, predicted the explosion of Illinois video gambling would inevitably level off. The popularity of it also has come at the expense of riverboat casinos and the horse-racing industry, according to the state analysis.
An unusual way for a court opinion to start: “Rats. This case is about rats. Giant, inflatable rats…Cats too—inflatable fat cats, wearing business suits and pinkie rings, strangling workers.”
The Illinois Department of Human Services will have hearings next month on its plan to prohibit overtime for workers who provide in-home care for people with disabilities.
“If you actually talk to the people who run some of the city’s most interesting companies…their confidence is incandescent, enough so that Chicago can rightly claim to be one of our most vibrant startup corridors.”
Comment: Due in part to “lax enforcement of discrimination laws”? Come on.
By: Mark Glennon* Never mind that he’s talking about many who his university educated, including me. Any of you who question campus preoccupation with safe spaces, trigger warnings and microagressions are idiots and lunatics. That’s what Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro told new students this past week in his welcoming address. Articles about his comments include those in CampusReform and The Daily Northwestern. “Look for safe spaces,” Schapiro told the freshman, and he pledged that “if you can’t find them, we will help you find them.” Regarding traumatic ideas, Schapiro says, “If they say that…you shouldn’t be warned to
The firm, which has dual headquarters in London and Paris, will enter the city with its mergers and acquisitions advisory business, the biggest of its three global business arms.
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