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The outdoor heaters “are really meant for 50-degree nights, not 20-degree nights,” T.J. Blakeman, Champaign’s senior planner for economic development said. “At the end of the day, we live in central Illinois, and the weather’s going to be an issue.”
A republication of our Wirepoints article.
“We’re trying to get his attention,” said Dave Ruggles, a parent who is also a plaintiff in the lawsuit. “We’re trying to send a message… he’s the guy who’s stopping this from happening.”
“‘Think about all our struggling small businesses,’ Kaegi said. Unfair assessments are one part of a complex system that has made some parts of the south suburbs look like a disaster has unfolded in slow motion. Some neighborhood are characterized by vacant lots, fire-damaged structures and abandoned buildings.”
The monitor’s survey included interviews with 1,000 residents between November 2019 and February 2020 — notably before the May 31 slaying of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest.
Since 2008, Deanie Brown, of Springfield, has been associate chancellor for access and equal opportunity at the University of Illinois Springfield.
After two weeks, one of the 100 envelopes still hadn’t been delivered. Two weeks is a key measure because the state of Illinois allows mail-in ballots to be counted only if they show up within 14 days of Election Day and, this year, are proven to have been mailed by Nov. 3.
In a series of tweets, sent late Saturday on the West Coast, the billionaire investor said that public figures including Elon Musk “are leaving California to escape incompetent governance.” Like many states in need of more revenue due to the economic ravages of the global pandemic, California is considering raising taxes on its richest residents.
Nearly 40% of respondents prefer to have some employees onsite and others telecommuting while 25% support all of their workers clocking in from their homes. When traveling to the Loop, most respondents said they would drive themselves over boarding METRA or the CTA or hailing a rideshare vehicle.
“If University Park were an affluent white suburb, instead of an African American one, our water would not still be lead-contaminated,” Mayor Joseph Roudez III said. Some residents there are now in their 15th month without safe drinking water.
Presented as a simplified budget, the city spends $4 on health, $10 on education, $4 on housing, $23 on infrastructure, $24 on community resources and $36 on carceral systems. But the Austin residents’ allocations presented a stark contrast: $17 for health, $22 for education, $17 on housing, $14 on infrastructure, $15 on community resources and $15 on carceral systems.
“I think it’s more than a suggestion that people are seeking to do harm to cops,” Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown told reporters at a recent briefing. “We’re hyper vigilant anyway as a profession, but when officers are shot here and other parts of the country, it makes us even more concerned about the safety of our officers.”
“Breonna Taylor lost her life and no one has been held accountable for it,” one participant said. “This is the way I chose to lift my voice, not just as a Black woman but as a person who considers herself to be a freedom fighter.”
“Maybe his (Pritzker’s) daughter wants to go on hayrides and that’s what’s happened,” said State Rep. Charlie Meier, a hay farmer. “She’s been allowed to go out of state and go to her horse competitions, so maybe she wants to go on a hayride in Illinois and that’s why we’re going to have them, but at least some people are going to enjoy hayrides and for that I’m happy.”
This apparently is a rebuttal to Wirepoints’ recent article about why you don’t raise taxes during a recession.
Earlier numbers, which were far more frightening, got extensive press coverage. Very little media attention, however, has gone toward the new numbers.
Pritzker maintained it was Republicans “that are proposing annihilating the working class and the middle class in Illinois because they have no solutions.” The Democrat castigated his predecessor, one-term Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, for failing to offer ways to fix Illinois’ budget imbalance while presiding over eight credit downgrades in his four years.
For the entire Great Lakes, 94 drownings have occurred in 2020, meaning approximately 56 percent were reported on Lake Michigan
“It’s kind of a mess,” one applicant said. “There’s been so many glitches.”
“In some sense they’re lying with facts,” graduate student David Zegeye said. “For instance, when they’re building the new Woodlawn Commons Dorm…they are technically bringing jobs, they are bringing businesses…but what we’re really asking is, ‘Are those for Woodlawn residents? Are those for the folks who you’ve harmed the most?”
Last year, the Byron School District received more than $19.1 million in taxes from the plant.
“They see it on the news, their parents talk about it and we come back and we say ‘hey, how can we make this work’ and they’ll say ‘we create peace, we create peace,'” said Candice Washington, a kindergarten teacher at Carole Robertson Center.
The Say Her Name rally was also a fundraiser to support black women-led organizations. So far about $52,000 has been raised.
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