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“A key missing element is an accompanying revenue stream from Springfield to pay for this $18-30 million annual new financial obligation,” Lightfoot said. “This bill is fiscally irresponsible and validates a Springfield practice of cutting back room deals without full transparency and debate.
Nearly 200 buyers entered the SmartBuy process between Dec. 1 and late March, and 26 had completed purchases. About 10 of those who had entered the process were from outside Illinois. To date, the agency has paid off an average of $24,100 in student loan debt for each buyer.
Illinois House Bill 158 expands medical services to low-income and underserved communities, improves health care worker training and tackles multiple health-related issues like maternal health and infant mortality, the opioid epidemic and sickle cell anemia through various programs and directives.
“With the signing of this bill, we now at last bargain from a level playing field — with the ability to at last reject the chronic classroom overcrowding, incompetent and wasteful third party contracting, and the desperate shortage of school nurses, social workers, counselors and other chronic staffing needs that have plagued our schools for years,” CTU President Jesse Sharkey said.
The details were outlined in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Monday. The report did not disclose the name or location of the bar.
“We’re all wondering if this was a lost year for our children,” Pritzker said “We worry if a year’s worth of online classes and virtual play dates will impact their future in some negative way in the future.”
Illinois’ existing gun licensing program has tens of thousands of backlogged applications and appeals. State Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer said if the state can’t manage the existing gun licensing program without delaying people their rights, it either needs to be fixed or scrapped.
“At this time, there is no reason to believe that any election data or information has been compromised,” the State Board of Elections said.
Less than an hour before the governor’s office announced he had signed the bill supported by the firefighters union, Lightfoot took to Twitter to urge Pritzker to veto the bill, saying it “would worsen our unfunded pension liability and place an unnecessary financial burden on Chicago residents who can least afford it. We need to ensure a stable financial future for our city and all our residents. This bill does the opposite.”
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Parents and medical professionals are sounding the alarm on mental health concerns for children and teenagers during the pandemic.
“Evanston’s a progressive city, which is why this was done, but the devil is always in the details,” said Northwestern political science professor Alvin Tillery. “Keeping together the narrative of progressive racial politics on the left side of this equation — that’s going to be an interesting feature to watch as well.”
“The suburbs are hot,” said Julia Lindquist with @properties , noting that “anywhere outside the central business district” in Chicago “is doing really well right now.”
Said Lightfoot, “Unfortunately, the final version of the consent decree put this issue off for several years, but it is now past time to act.”
A state-funded report finished last November from Guidestar says Illinois has to spend $330 million more to be fully compliant with the 2011 Ligas decree. This, the report said, would go far in serving the 17,000 disabled persons on the waiting list for community-based services.
Hypocrisy and dishonesty have no limits in politics. The SALT deduction is just another example.
Chicago public school parents, if you want your children educated, you have no choice: Put them in a private school if you can afford it or move somewhere that puts education over teachers’ unions.
State Rep. Will Guzzardi’s measure to lift the ban on rent control cleared the Housing Committee late last month, though not every Democrat voted for it.
“The irony, of course, is that several of the public officials embroiled in federal tax indictments so far — allegedly trying to evade their own tax burden — were consistent, reliable votes to raise taxes on everyone else. Taxes for thee but not for me?”
“Where does it end?” said one restaurant owner asked. “When are we going to just be allowed to do what we’re supposed to be doing?”
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