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As 2018 looms, employers in Illinois are bracing for another wave of employment and labor regulations on the local, state and federal levels.
Not specific to Illinois, but it applies here as much as anywhere.
Several women in the Illinois legislature, which has already passed new laws in response to the outcry, caution that lawmakers should take their time when writing new sexual harassment policies.
100,000 members are all happy that the Illinois Federation of Teachers endorsed Pritzker?
There’s a vital job that remains unfinished: closing Chicago high schools hit by shriveling enrollment and faltering academics. There are at least 17 schools on that list, according to a recent analysis by Tribune reporters Juan Perez Jr. and Jennifer Smith Richards.
As a “distinguished senior fellow.”
Comment: Just another in the deluge of similar stories coming from municipalities across the state, which we wrote about last week.
Not good for Illinois: “Proposed changes include reducing the weight of the governance factor to 20% from 30% and increasing the weight of the economy factor and the debt and pensions factor to 25% each from 20% each, to reflect the relative influence of the state or territory economy and the effect of long-term liabilities on credit assessments.”
With the need to fill millions of new aviation jobs over the next two decades, schools and companies in the suburbs are priming the pipeline for high school students to fill the shortage.
Bruce Rauner and IDOT last year proposed adding one express toll lane in each direction for the 25-mile stretch between I-355 and I-90/94, to be built by private companies. The stretch starts at Bolingbrook and touches such southwest suburbs as Burr Ridge, Hodgkins and Summit, plus Chicago’s Southwest Side.
IDOT has now upped the ante and proposes having two new toll lanes in each direction from I-90/94 in the city to I-294, with one toll lane in each direction from I-294 to I-355.
Coming to your local school, whether you like it or not.
In a new statement of principles, the University of Illinois pledges an “unyielding allegiance to freedom of speech — even controversial, contentious and unpopular speech.”
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