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For comparison, during the same timeframe last year, 16,669 people filed claims in Illinois. That’s a 770% increase.
“A groundbreaking is now tentatively set for sometime in 2021. Chicago awaits what is sure to be a major tourism draw, and the South Side awaits the benefits that the Obama Foundation has promised the center would generate — more than $3 billion in economic development for surrounding communities in the first 10 years.”
It’s more complicated than any single number, several local and national infectious disease experts said. Some argue the metric the city is using — doubling rate, which would allow schools to reopen right now — might offer an incomplete look at Chicago’s epidemic. Yet every one of them says the threshold the teachers union is pushing — 3% test positivity, which likely won’t be reached for months — is outdated and not particularly useful.
More than 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Illinois since the first vaccine was approved for emergency use this month, and state officials expect the pace of the vaccination program to speed up as the federal government begins distributing a second drug this week.
Regarding the claim that Pritzker’s emergency powers ended on April 8, Judge Raylene Grischow found that the state law in question — the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act — allows the governor to issue more than one 30-day disaster proclamation: “The Appellate Court expressly found that the IEMAA authorizes the Governor to issue successive disaster proclamations stemming from one ongoing disaster. This grant of authority includes providing for the health, safety and welfare of the people of Illinois under a rational basis standard.”
“What we don’t want to do is yo-yo back and forth between Tier 3, Tier 2 and that would not open bars and restaurants either way,” Pritzker said. “We do want to get everything open as soon as possible.”
Pritzker said he’s being a cheerleader for Illinois to attract business, but it’s going to take time. “It takes time to turn a battleship or a aircraft carrier in the right direction and we’ve been doing that in the last two years and I will continue to do that.”
Lottery money never really makes it to the classroom. Instead, those revenues are more than eaten up by annual contributions to education pensions.
Most public-sector workers in Illinois expect their union dues to fund representation at their workplace. But that’s often not the case. According to data from the Illinois State Board of Elections, unions have given over $10 million to election committees run by Madigan. Just shy of $4 million was paid by teachers.
The CDC came scarily close to adopting a plan that would, according to its own models, have killed thousands of Americans.
“We did an economic impact study that found that this is going to bring over $1.3 million in local spending for our community,” Christina Frank, vice president of external communications for Cornerstone Alliance, said. “That’s really what this is all about. Helping our small businesses.”
Supt. David Brown said he would ban the department from seeking and executing “no-knock” warrants — which allow officers to enter a home or business without announcing themselves first — except in cases when someone’s life is at risk. The officers who searched Young’s home did not have a no-knock warrant.
“[Pritzker] is using this emergency statute to create these restrictions,” said Laura Grochocki, the attorney for the plaintiffs. “They are supposed to have a rational basis. We are asking why high school sports have the restrictions and why college sports and pro sports do not. Is there a rational basis for the restrictions on high schools? Or is there something else at work here, why they are allowed to play and high schools are not?”
the lawsuit accuses Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois High School Association of violating their kids’ rights under the states constitution.
First Midstate Inc. and its president Paul Brown, 61, agreed to pay and be censured without admitting or denying the SEC?s findings that it violated both SEC and Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board rules.
Equity will be a focal point for the Commission’s work.
Illinois’ law is the strictest in the nation. The highest age any other state stipulates for a child to be left alone is 12. Thirty other states have no such age restrictions.
“This process waived a number of crucial checkpoints when creating a new taxing district, including the signature requirement to prove a base-level of support among those being taxed, and a 90-day public comment period,” said 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly.
Any savings from furloughs would be erased by the need for additional overtime, said Mike Newman, deputy director of AFSCME Council 31. “This is a revenue problem, it’s not a spending problem, and it’s a problem that goes beyond just this fiscal year. So you’re not going to solve a revenue shortfall by targeting state employees.”
The concentrated effort to find out what went wrong at the LaSalle Veterans Home begs a broader question: Why aren’t state officials paying the same elevated attention to all Illinois retirement home deaths? Today, we’re at more than 7,500 retirement home deaths – the equivalent of 220 LaSalle Homes.
New U.S. Census Bureau data shows Illinois has cemented its place as the nation’s extreme outlier in population losses. When measured since 2010, the Prairie State’s population has dropped by 250,000, the most of any state in the country.
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