At least one business, the CBOE, explicitly asked workers and visitors to its Options Exchange trading floor, which reopened Monday, to avoid public transportation.

While Illinois law explicitly states union contracts trump all other state laws, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled a police contract allowing the destruction of disciplinarily records defies public policy and cannot be enforced.

“Property taxes are based on what governments charge residents and property owners for services. School districts, libraries, park districts, municipal and county government — they ultimately determine the property tax burden for their taxpayers based on how much they spend. For all of them, a top expense is personnel and for some, that includes paying for the pensions of retired workers. Increasingly in this state, pension costs are putting pressure on local property taxes.”

Drivers have to pay for the equipment themselves first, but the city will reimburse them.

“I think they’ve got to listen and invite us into the conversation. Mayors are on the front lines. We’ve been on the front lines through COVID-19. That work continues. We’re on the front lines when it comes to police reform and accountability,” she told CNN in a Skype interview.

“Whether or not there’s a vaccine, there’s going to be a vote. And we need to do everything we can to keep our voters and our poll workers safe,” said James Allen with the Chicago Board of Elections.

For the last six years, the basis of Chicago’s funding formula has been to give the same per-pupil amount to individual schools, with small variations to address students’ needs and backgrounds.

According to a statement released by the sheriff’s office, even though the jail’s budget is much higher than it was in 2013, it has started to shrink in the past few years. The budget has been reduced by $42 million and the staff has dropped 600 positions since 2017, the statement said.

Outdoor seating should remain the priority “for safe dining and drinking,” the city said. The city’s and state’s top doctors have said they aren’t even participating in reopened outdoor dining — let alone indoor dining.

Now, with taxes calculated, we know the true impact of the Kaegi effect: The average residential property tax bill in municipalities in north and northwest suburban Cook rose just 1.1 percent this year from 2019, according to the Cook County Treasurer’s office. The average bill for commercial and industrial properties rose 15.8 percent.

The land bank still faces a broader inquiry by the Cook County inspector general’s office, also prompted by the Sun-Times report that the land bank accepted the donation of a dilapidated building owned by Chester Wilson, chief of staff to Ald. Carrie Austin (34th), wiped out more than $200,000 that Wilson owed in back property taxes, then sold the building to a Wilson business partner.

A study of 270 police shootings in Chicago from 2006 to 2014 found that the demographics of the officers who fired their weapons matched the demographics of the police department. Whites were 51 percent of the shooters and 53 percent of the force; blacks were 23 percent of the shooters and 25 percent of the force.

Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, said he received two tickets totaling “$300 within 12 minutes” in Ald. Brendan Reilly’s 42nd Ward. Reilly tweeted early in the exchange, “Here’s a thought: obey the parking & loading regulations on the block and you don’t get a ticket. Simple.”

Andrew Challenger, senior vice president of the Chicago outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said some companies are limping through the summer with bailout money from the federal Payroll Protection Program. “There are a lot of jobs that are basically on life support right now. If the demand doesn’t come back, they will be gone.”

The lawsuit alleges the state-imposed restrictions violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the Constitution and that Pritzker overstepped his authority. Apart from the village, other plaintiffs in the lawsuit include two village residents and the co-owner of an Orland Park business.

The DEA announced the designation, which will bring the county more resources to coordinate federal, state and local government responses.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said in a joint statement saying that the report “illustrates how the level of transformational change and reform that we are working towards cannot be achieved overnight.