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Most Cook County employees, who are deemed essential, have not been in the office since Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s stay-at-home order took effect on March 21, although some have worked from home.
The city said a slate of more than 150 new and reimagined summer events will be put on, including at-home dance parties, drive-in movies, virtual concerts, farmers markets and community meals for frontline workers.
There are more than 800 taverns across the city–and 100 tavern owners have to pay $4,400 by July 15 to renew their liquor licenses–whether they’re open for business or not.
“Any officer who abuses their power or stands by and allows it to happen does not deserve to wear the badge, period,” Brown said in his statement.
While the organization considered fundraising for each facility, a study concluded that anticipated funds wouldn’t be enough to cover future losses.
The reopenings each come with their own set of changes. Here’s a look at where some of the biggest malls stand:
The deaths now account for more than half — 52% — of the 5,270 COVID-19 fatalities statewide. Lingering data discrepancies and reporting changes have muddled the weekly listing.
“As mayor I will always champion the contributions our immigrants and refugees have made throughout the life of our city — DACA or otherwise — and continue to make every single day. And so long as I am mayor, I will continue to do everything I can to support these communities, to lift up their stories and fight to ensure their rightful place in the country we all call home.”
It was Illinoisans, he said, who made the easing of restrictions possible. “The significant personal pain that Illinoisans are feeling from this pandemic does not end with our stay-at-home order. Indeed, it’s more important than ever to support our working families as we begin our safe recovery,” the governor said.
The churches filed a reply to Pritzker’s response the morning of May 29, stating that “[me]ere hours before his Response was due in this Court, the Governor announced a sudden change in his 10-person limit on religious worship services … after vigorously defending his policy in both lower courts, and having announced barely 3 weeks ago that it would be 12 to 18 months before numerical limits on worship services were lifted…”
Among the reasons, more than 30% of Illinoisans’ tax dollars will prop up the state’s bloated pension system.
United Airlines is preparing for job cuts that could exceed those that followed the double whammy of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and United’s ensuing bankruptcy. With American Airlines poised to follow suit, the cutbacks will send shock waves through the Chicago area.
“As COVID-19 changes workers’ relationships with employers, it will also reshape government’s role in the workplace. ‘We’re having a universal experience of the kind we haven’t had since the Second World War,’ University of Chicago assistant professor John Paul Rollert says. ‘After this, we’re going to have a conversation about the types of social insurance we only see in northern Europe. Everything is going to be on the table.'”
“Knowing that we have learned to live safely, it is time for our government to have trust in its citizens. Oftentimes, we must protect ourselves from ourselves. Have faith and trust that we are capable of protecting ourselves and others.”
Earlier this month, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Alison Conlon allowed Cicero officials to make two unannounced visits to the City View MultiCare Center to ensure that guidelines were being followed to curb the spread of the coronavirus. A Cicero official “frightened and intimidated residents” and barged into the home of a woman “who was laying on her bed wearing only underwear,” City View MultiCare Center alleges.
The streets are in the Chatham, Lakeview, Little Village, Gold Coast, Near West Side, and West Loop neighborhoods. They were selected for their proximity to local businesses and residents for ease of walking and biking, and impact to traffic, the mayor said.
She went on to call Trump’s response to the subsequent protests and riots in Minneapolis a “profoundly dangerous” effort to stoke racial tensions and throw “red meat” to his base while endangering the lives of Black Americans and other protesters.
“You’ve got one million Illinoisans unemployed, nobody knows what’s happening with the economy, we’re only now starting to open up. And yet the government passed a record spending budget – the biggest ever – with no cuts, no furloughs, no kind of savings whatsoever to give relief to Illinoisans that have to pay for that government.”
Some publicly traded property owners have estimated 10% to 25% or more of their office tenants were late on rent payments in April and May. Those are lower percentages than retail rent defaults.
Former State Senator Steve Rauschenberger (R-Elgin) said, “It’s an embarrassment [that elected officials responded as they did] – that’s not American, it’s not the people we are. We should never let this happen again this way.”
While owner Pat Fowler was prepping and already filling up tables for Friday at the Firehouse Grill, his other nearby restaurant, Candlelite, is located in Chicago at 7452 N. Western Ave. –- Asbury Avenue to Evanstonians. Thus, nothing new is happening there.
Commercial properties in Cook County have also taken a hit — some as much as 38%, according to the assessor’s office’s analysis of publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts.
The road trip is poised for a comeback.
Was it because his “science and data” somehow changed? Or was it because he feared having his vast emergency powers challenged in the United States Supreme Court?
Two months and more than 800,000 lost jobs later, we now know which job sectors are the shutdown’s biggest losers. The least impacted sector in Illinois? State government.
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They’re investors in a firm cashing in on the Cook County Land Bank Authority, financing rehabbers who flip properties for double, triple, even 50 times what they paid the county.
Rep. Delia Ramirez said the coverage – tucked in near the end of the 465-page budget implementation bill that passed the Illinois General Assembly late Saturday night – will save the state money in the long run, costing about $2 million, which in her opinion, “is nothing to a $2 billion Medicaid bill.”
“Fourth of July is a time for redemption. He has to redeem himself from this Memorial Day weekend catastrophe. … I would certainly not walk into the Fourth of July with the premise of reducing overtime. Let’s put officers on the street to keep our residents safe. And we’ll worry about overtime on the Fifth of July,” said Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th), a former Chicago Police officer
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