Under Senate Bill 3027 teachers moving from private to public school would have the option of paying into the system to cover both the employee and employer pension contributions for up to two years of private teaching. It requires that their previous private school was certified by the Illinois State Board of Education.
“Last fall, a teacher’s strike in Chicago produced a commitment from the city to hire hundreds of school nurses. In recent years, the city’s schools have relied on a chaotic deployment system, in which an average of five nurses cycle through any given school during a three-month period, with about 300 nurses staffing more than 500 schools.
A Cook County commissioner quits as a former city administrator faces a bribery charge. Both played roles in the rise of red-light cameras and vendor SafeSpeed.
The only state to perform worse was Connecticut – the last state to adopt a progressive income tax, and one of the few states in the past decade that raised property tax rates faster than Illinois.
“It’s going to bring economic investment to the Far South Side and turn land that has never generated taxes, never generated jobs onto the tax rolls to bring jobs and taxes to the city,” the developer said.
To be clear, Argonne does not have a sample of the virus—instead it has the proteins inside it. Argonne has shared this image so drug companies and other researchers can study it to find out how to stop the virus from replicating.
One measure would require students to get the HPV vaccine before they can go to school. Another proposal to eliminate the religious exemption for vaccine requirements could be pared back as discussion continues.
Illinois House Majority Leader Greg Harris, D-Chicago, said people are frustrated by the increasing cost of prescription drugs and healthcare services. But House Bill 5442 remains in committee; It would require state agencies to study a variety of healthcare plans in an effort to find the path toward lowering healthcare costs.
The Illinois TRUST Act, enacted in 2017, was the reason given by the Illinois Department of Corrections when the Illinois Sheriffs’ Association and several county sheriffs from around the state revealed the state’s prisons were no longer notifying local sheriffs regarding the release of felons who were not U.S. citizens upon completion of their sentence.
Financial documents and budgets for these schools are often opaque and incomplete. In general, there is a lack of transparency around charter schools, and public records only show a glimpse of the full picture. This was a topic of intense discussion at a recent meeting of the Chicago Board of Education, which approves and ultimately oversees charter schools in the city.
Loyola Academy in Wilmette canceled classes Monday after administrators learned that a student had contact with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus. No Loyola Academy students or staff have been diagnosed with COVID-19; school was canceled as a precautionary measure.
Federal agents raided the Bloomingdale Township Road Department in January, collecting Highway Commissioner Robert Czernek’s desk calendar, a “dirt log,” and financial records involving three construction contractors, a search warrant shows. The probe comes amid a spiraling federal corruption investigation unfolding in Chicago and the suburbs with ties to transportation spending.
Chicago’s new design system is a turnkey visual identity that allows disparate city services to operate under a single banner, from their signs to their websites. Chicago estimates it can save anywhere up to $10 million a year by taking simple steps to unify the design of 29 different departments around the city with its brand.
Referring to the 57,515 Cook County tax-delinquent property owners facing a May 8 scavenger tax sale, Pappas said, “That is exactly 17,000 more than last year” at this time.
Does it undermine the goal of maximizing returns? Yes, of course it does — by definition.
More than four decades after the Supreme Court upheld the right to vote for people in pretrial detention, many Americans remain blocked from exercising that right because states don’t have procedures in place to allow access. Illinois is no longer one of them, with a new law requiring all jails to ensure that some 20,000 pretrial detainees have an opportunity to vote.
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