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“There are two problems in Springfield preventing sensible policymaking. The first problem is what the economist F.A. Hayek called the ‘knowledge problem.’ In an incredibly complex and diverse society, government necessarily acts with less than the optimal amount of information.”
“Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has re-imposed stringent regulations on bars, restaurants and fitness clubs to try to tamp down Chicago’s own increase in COVID-19 cases,” CTU President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement last month. “Yet Lightfoot and her hand-picked board of education are committed to putting students and their educators back in schools in barely a month, while CPS’ charter operators are planning to reopen in less than two weeks.”
“As we promised last week when we announced in partnership with the Illinois Federation of Teachers, no avenue or action is off the table — the courts, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board — nothing, including health and safety strikes,” IEA President Kathi Griffin said.
At publishing time, the protesters had ordered food delivery and more protesting supplies that arrived to them thanks to the hard work of actual essential workers.
“I will say that he has handled the COVID issue as well as anybody could under these situations, but it’s the extension of his authority and power under this executive branch — I think he’s overextended himself,” Durkin said. He noted that Pritzker was exploring new emergency orders involving enforcement of mandatory face masks, potentially involving fines, as an example of overreach.
Knight and Gallup conducted a random sample of 20,046 American adults between Nov. 8, 2019 and Feb. 16, 2020, and claimed a margin of error of plus or minus 1%.
Respondents indicated that the greatest threat to a vast amount of real estate in the Chicago area is the continued uncertainty of Cook County property taxes, with many also highlighting city, state and county financial issues. More than one third of participants believe there will be a modest shift in investments to the suburban markets.
Video camera footage reportedly shows the gunman walking down an alley and peering between a fence moments before the shooting. The boy was shaking hands with a neighbor, who is believed to have been the intended target.
The front glass door of Dolce & Gabbana’s boutique was shattered by the gunfire. A handgun was seen lying in a traffic lane on Oak Street.
State Rep. Terri Bryant, R-Murphyboro, posted on social media ahead of Pritzker’s visit to Carbondale, sharing frustrations with the governor and being purposefully not invited to the event in her district. “Don’t act like you want to know about downstate issues, or especially deep Southern Illinois issues, if you haven’t talked to the downstate Republican chairman.”
“Most notably we’re seeing an increase of suicide among our young people. The youngest victim this year was only 9 years old,” Preckwinkle said. “This is horrifying.”
“What is CTU’s plan for successful remote learning? There isn’t one. Just marches and political pressure. By Tuesday afternoon, the union was threatening another strike.”
State Rep. Mike Murphy, R-Springfield, said it’s time for the legislature to act. “If we would get there and debate these issues, more facts would come out and there’d be more buy-in by the people. Right now we’re getting it just from the executive branch and there’s a lot of distrust or skepticism by people in regards to having one branch of government running the government.”
Cairo, in Alexander County, is a town of about 2,200 people that sits at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in the southern tip of Illinois. Approximately 80 percent of all the barge traffic in the United States passes by the city. State Sen. Dale Fowler, whose district includes Cairo, said the project is expected to produce jobs and economic activity that will have a ripple effect throughout the region.
Nine Democratic lawmakers have made unconditional calls for him to leave the leadership roles in the wake of federal charges filed against ComEd that implicated Madigan. Other Democrats have followed Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s lead in making a more nuanced rebuke.
Said Exelon CEO Christopher Crane, “Some are uneconomic at this point right now, and some more may become uneconomic. Our commitment to you has always been if we can’t find a way or path to profitability, we’ll have to shut them down.” The plants employ hundreds of workers.
Without the borrowing, Mendoza noted, lawmakers would have been faced with the prospect of making 35-percent cuts across the board. “This would have been catastrophic to schools; public safety; and the medical, social, and human service programs upon which the state’s most vulnerable citizens rely.”
Finished on Sunday, the mural is a collaboration between 18 Chicago artists who volunteered their time and financed the work. “They went for it, and we’re glad they did, because it’s beautiful,” said a spokesman for the business group Uptown United. “We hope it’s there as long as possible.”
Anyone found to violate the order – a list of 22 states and now also Puerto Rico – could be fined $100 to $500 a day, up to $7,000 total. However, city officials conceded they won’t be able to keep track of who is and isn’t following the rules.
“Nnote that the state of Illinois has, in general, nothing to say about whether, or to what degree, students are instructed in the history of places outside the United States — there is no mandate to study European history, for instance, or even ‘World History’ generically stated, even though students customarily do. All that’s required is two years of ‘social science,’ of which one must be U.S. history.”
In order to keep cases from increasing in the yellow zone counties, the White House task force recommends mandating masks, closing bars, and limiting indoor dining at restaurants.
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