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A bill to overturn a 1997 state rent control ban is headed for a vote.
Comment: We wrote to the same effect earlier here. Don’t underestimate the historic nature of what’s going on and how it will end state and local government as we’ve known it.
Comment: Are they aware that the new federal American Rescue Plan prohibits tax cuts like this?
Firms are short total of nearly $200M in property taxes from 2019 and over $1B from 2020.
The Illinois Senate has added to the call for the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to waive spring assessments, such as the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), for students, as it did in 2020.
In Evanston, Illinois, a Black parent and school-board candidate takes on a curriculum meant to combat racism.
People wishing to sign up for online sports wagering must now go to a brick-and-mortar facility.
A $2.3 billion extension of Chicago’s Red Line south to 130th Street. More than 600,000 new water lines across Illinois. A $3 billion total remake of North Lake Shore Drive.These are among the scores of projects Illinois state, local and federal officials are pursuing anew as President Joe Biden pushes his $2 trillion American Jobs Plan to shore up and transform the nation’s infrastructure.
Illinois native Nicole Neily, founder and president of Speech First, is doing what’s long overdue to bring freedom of expression back to higher education: She’s suing — and winning. Now she has expanded her efforts challenge the identity-based dogma being taught in K-12 schools.
Defying Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill restoring CTU’s ability to bargain with the city over a wide range of issues, including class size, layoffs and the duration of the school year. The change could drastically change the scope of ongoing negotiations over how and whether high school students will return to in-person class.
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