More on Thursday’s charges against Lawrence Wyllie, accusing him of using bond proceeds to inflate the apparent fiscal health of Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210.
There will be no Fresh Markets in Cook Country thanks to the soda tax and other job killers.
The city of Chicago has scored a victory in court Friday as a federal judge granted most of its requests to freeze what it called U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ “unprecedented seizure of power” as he tries to deny federal law enforcement grants to sanctuary cities like Chicago — a victory that will apply to sanctuary cities nationwide fighting the Trump administration effort.
The state’s August jobs numbers were poor across the board, but especially sobering for manufacturing.
Yes, yes, yes!
The Daily Herald reported today on Illinois Treasurer Mike Frerichs boasting about his purchase of a new issue of Kane County forest district bonds using taxpayer money. Those particular bonds may be quite safe; I’m not questioning that. And Frerichs might have paid a fair price, but the circumstances and his comments suggest he might not have. According to the article, Kane County Forest Preserve District officials fretted about Illinois’ budget chaos as they prepared to take $50 million of bonds to the market in July. The state’s financial woes added uncertainty that could have resulted in greater costs to
Comment: As one who served as a big brother in the program earlier, I can tell you this is truly heartbreaking to read. It’s a wonderful program doing a small part to address the primary cause of poverty and suffering, which is young women bearing children before they have a committed partner.
Poverty fell and median income rose substantially last year in Chicago and Illinois, mirroring national trends. The Chicago metro area saw its poverty rate drop to 12.4 percent in 2016 from 13.3 percent the year before, according to American Community Survey data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Meanwhile, median household income increased 3.2 percent in the Chicago metro area, to $66,020. Nearly all of the other metro areas saw increases as well.
Comment: They’re being pushed out, perhaps intentionally.
Illinois incomes were slightly higher than the rest of the nation in 2016, but those in Madison and St. Clair Counties were thousands of dollars below both figures, according to new data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Rahm Emanuel comes to Haifa, Tel Aviv and Beersheva to ink agreements with two Israeli universities and the city of Tel Aviv.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool finally briefed the City Council Thursday about the shaky state of school finances, but aldermen came away from the closed-door meetings frustrated by his evasive answers.
Despite the smaller relative size of its burden, Kentucky is considering making far more comprehensive changes to its public sector retirement systems than Illinois ever has.
Comment: It’s a long shot, but the prize is so huge it’s worth a good shot.
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