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Chicago lobbyists have raked in $171 million from clients in the past eight years, with the highly connected reaping the biggest rewards, according to Chicago Board of Ethics data dating back to 2012.
Among top-paid lobbyists over that stretch: All-Circo’s John Kelly Jr. ($12.3 million), Michael Kasper ($10.3 million) and Cozen O’Connor’s John Dunn ($7.5 million). Companies shelling out millions to sway Chicago officials include outdoor advertiser JCDecaux and affiliates, the American Beverage Association and ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft.
Pressure to reopen physical unemployment offices has been buildings since IDES stopped answering live calls in July and instead launched a callback-only system.
“Every day, landlords across Chicago are illegally evicting working-class, Black, Brown, and queer tenants out of their apartments and out of their communities into an eviction,” an activist said.
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Griffin and Pritzker are the main funding sources of the campaigns for and against the proposal asking voters to change the state’s constitution to replace Illinois’ current flat-rate income tax with a graduated-rate tax. Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, has given the Vote Yes for Fairness campaign $56.5 million.
A murder case with decades of baggage — three different trials, a high-profile exoneration, a legacy of police torture — was abruptly dropped this week after allegations that a Cook County prosecutor lied under oath.
That’s the only logical conclusion one can draw in the wake of the news, reported by Crain’s columnist Greg Hinz on Oct. 1, that state Rep. Chris Welch, D-Hillside, is forbidding his committee from issuing subpoenas to people who could shed light on a specter that’s haunted Springfield for months. He says he won’t
On Friday, Wisconsin ranked third behind Texas and California in terms of total new cases in the last seven days, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For new cases per capita, it is third behind the Dakotas, where some outbreaks have been tied to meatpacking plants and large gatherings like concerts.
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