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The average commercial and industrial tax bill rose more than 20 percent in 10 suburbs.
“You’re basically degrading a neighborhood and indicating to people who want to commit crimes that it’s okay,” O’Brien said. “You’re telling people generally that the fact they obey the law doesn’t matter because ‘we’re giving consideration to people who disobeyed the law who we think are victims, too.’”
“It is time for a serious corporate uprising that will demand change, get change or leave the city and maybe the state.”
“We do not have a plan to, for example, look for out-of-state license plates and pull them over,” Commissioner of Public Health Allison Arwady said. “We do not have a plan to create a list of individuals who are traveling and try to track them down.
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Comment: This dispute will be ended quickly, one way or another, upon an appeal.
There’s a strong hint of tit-for-tat in a move that has little to do with health and a lot to do with regional and political posturing in a not-so-united country. The interstate chest-puffing might have some entertainment value, but Americans shouldn’t feel any obligation to obey the pointless rules.
“Indoor eating is open at restaurants but this isn’t. That’s weird,” said a woman at the beach Thursday.
“It also marks state leaders’ acknowledgment that over-taxation can halt private investment in a venture.”
Pritzker is expected to appeal the decision. However, a 2001 informal opinion drafted by Senior Assistant Attorney General Michael Luke suggested that the governor would need legislative approval to extend the 30-day period.
Activists from the Southwest Environmental Alliance and Neighbors for Environmental Justice turned out at Tadin’s home — drums in hand — to demand the McKinley Park business be shuttered amid the respiratory pandemic.
Illinois has tested an average of 29,000 people per day in the past week, which is much higher than average testing rates during the peak of the pandemic. But two Illinois epidemiologists said more data is needed to understand those increased testing numbers. “Say they are testing the baseball team every single day. That’s going to be leading you a different direction versus this is all people coming to the ER with symptoms.”
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