It’s assets returned 0.6% during the most recent year. Assume rate of return is 7%.

In Cook County, 232 schools have had potential exposure to COVID-19 but zero outbreaks have been recorded. Statewide, there have been 10 school-based outbreaks, according to the data, which will be updated each week.

Other leading sources of outbreaks since the state’s pandemic “reopening” July 1 were community events (34), churches (31), colleges (31) and correctional facilities (27).

“In addition to the clear language of the Emergency Management Act, these statutes all confirm our conclusion that the legislature intended to allow the governor to issue successive disaster proclamations stemming from an ongoing disaster,” the Appellate Court said.

“Loyal readers know that I’ve been a strong critic of Boss Madigan for years. But he also is the most disciplined politician I’ve ever seen and is a legislative maestro. If Pritzker really is going to raise taxes and make serious budget cuts with another election coming, he’ll need experienced help.”

“These factual allegations are insufficient to establish that the COVID-19 pandemic does not satisfy any of the three injunctive requirements” used to define a public emergency, Judge Raylene Grischow wrote. “The conclusions that are set for in the county plaintiffs’ complaints are devoid of facts to support the conclusions.”

The letter reads, in part, “Despite the resilience of children, negative consequences are appearing and we fear this is the tip of the iceberg as these issues continue to rise.” The 200 superintendents who signed the letter represent more than 200,000 students statewide.

“Essentially how much a state is spending on uninsured people per case, so Illinois was 15th overall for the highest cost per COVID-19 case at $151 per person, per case,” analyst Adam Johnson said.

“The Governor was tested today and his results will be made public when available,” Pritkzer’s office said. “The Governor is currently isolating pending his test results.”

Fifty-three Democrats signed a letter in August calling for Madigan to resign his positions. Ten General Assembly Democrats also called for Madigan to step aside.

“Pritzker is asking for trust as too many in Springfield have betrayed the public’s trust. Pritzker is under federal investigation for avoiding $331,000 in property taxes. Former state lawmakers Terry Link, Luis Arroyo and Martin Sandoval, as well as state Sen. Thomas Cullerton, have all been indicted on corruption charges. And then there’s Madigan.”

“I joined 15 other members of the Illinois General Assembly to call for ethics reform measures in light of the numerous, ongoing federal investigations involving bribery, influence peddling and insider trading impacting state government officials and lobbyists…These nine steps without a doubt will bring a greater level of transparency to the business that is done in Springfield, and it is important that legislators work together to get them passed.”

Altogether, four groups — Vote Yes For Fairness, Vote Yes For Fair Tax, and two groups opposing the amendment — raised nearly $122 million, making it the priciest ballot initiative in Illinois history.

“What it boils down to is that the amendment’s failure was a vote of no confidence in Pritzker and in all of Illinois’ elected officials. Pritzker’s easy blaming of Republicans and millionaires and billionaires, rather than recognizing that Illinoisans made the only rational choice in a state with such a legacy of mismanagement and without any willingness for reform, certainly indicates that the state has a long way to go.”

Matt Paprocki,president of Illinois Policy: “Information asymmetry happens when the seller has much more information than the buyer, as with used car salesmen. They always knew more about the cars than the people who wanted to buy them, but technology has turned that dynamic on its head.”

Mark Konkol: “Without Madigan’s backing, Pritzker’s like every cloutless governor who came before him — helpless without the speaker’s support. Everybody knows it — apparently, except for the governor.”

Madigan is the only state House Speaker who is also the chairman of a state’s major political party, a nexus of power that allows him to direct campaign dollars to political allies and control what legislation moves through the Illinois House.

“Unless there’s a surprisingly large federal stimulus bill or state lawmakers very quickly come up with another solution to raise a lot of new revenue, Illinois is likely to suffer a downgrade from at least one of the rating agencies in the next several months,” said Adam Stern, co-head of research at Breckinridge Capital Advisors.

Madigan spokesman Steve Brown brushed off a question Wednesday about whether the losses signified his boss is politically wounded. “It’s a story that’s been written every two years. I don’t know that that’s what that means.”

Katy Hasson, president of the IHSA board of directors, said that staff members “tried and tried to initiate conversations” with Gov. J.B. Pritzker and those in his office, as well as persons with the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education. “They don’t want to talk, don’t want to reach a compromise.”

Of the 200,000+, 42,496 fraudulent claims have been identified in the regular employment system since March 1, and 169,506 fraudulent claims have been identified in the new federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program since May 11.

“The investigation doesn’t have to find Madigan, who denies any wrongdoing, guilty of anything to be legitimate. It doesn’t even have to find that his conduct merits further attention from the House, the main question before it. It just has to question witnesses. To review facts. To meet, for goodness’ sake.”