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Illinois’ borrowing through the Federal Reserve’s Municipal Liquidity Facility provided a lifeline for critical services during the COVID-19 pandemic, so the state should be allowed to use its incoming federal coronavirus relief money to pay it off, Comptroller Susana Mendoza tells the federal government.
Three men, including a well-known rapper, were shot Saturday morning at a River North parking garage, according to Chicago police and multiple sources. The incident involved a group of men who were “all shooting at each other,” according to a police spokesperson who cited preliminary information.
Some 1,600 jobs are being cut at a Jeep Cherokee factory in northern Illinois as automakers continue being plagued by the global shortage of semiconductors.
The state and federal governments have granted $67 million for a project at City Water, Light and Power aimed at capturing carbon dioxide from coal before emissions reach the air.
Rep. Chuy Garcia, now in his second term in Congress, will introduce legislation today to create job opportunities for young people from historically disadvantaged communities like the ones he represents in Chicago.
All year long, public school officials in Chicago and across the country have worried about high school students who have been chronically absent and are getting Fs during pandemic remote learning.
Last Wednesday alone, House committees approved 107 Senate bills for floor action and passed 227 during the full week. Senate committees approved 100 House bills last week. The biggest problem with this haphazard flood of bills is that many require mandates for additional state spending.
With vaccines now available to everybody in America age 17 and over, two numbers may be of most interest: How many vaccinated people have died from the virus and how many of those under age 17 have died.
You probably will be surprised at how extraordinarily low both numbers are:
-Of the 115 million Americans fully vaccinated, 223 have subsequently died.
-Of the 73 million Americans under age 17, 287 deaths have been COVID-related.
Think about that in terms of probability:
-The chances of dying even if you were vaccinated to date have been .0002%. That’s two ten-thousandths of one
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