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“Politicians do often use access as a weapon to favor, or punish, reporters based on their coverage. Yet Ms. Lightfoot’s explicit use of race as a reason for her discriminatory policy may violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. She used government resources to issue her announcement, and she does the same when conducting interviews in an official capacity.”
“We decided to divide, and you’re free to come on this side, go to the bar. You can be pre-pandemic,” said restaurant owner Sam Sanchez. “Just back to normal.”
Sen. Steve McClure said the bill would take away local control from school districts and mandate education standards that were developed by unelected, “dark-money groups…That’s not the way things should work.”
See our Quickpoint here on this radical proposal.
There is a wide variation in how far each state’s rainy day funds could stretch, from enough to run government operations for almost a year in Wyoming to less than one-tenth of a day in Illinois.
Illinois Sheriffs’ Association Executive Director Jim Kaitschuk said the organization offered up more than 400 pages to fix a variety of issues. “Just things that were clearly put together rather rapidly that have a much more far-reaching impact than what I think may have been the intent, but we don’t know that until we get it changed.”
Instead of calling out the racism, some in Chicago media used it to fake deep conversations on race—the kinds they learned about in White Fragility. In other words, they were too terrified to be
Some aldermen are unconvinced of the urgency of shoring up Chicago’s shaky finances with the federal funds. They have called for a universal basic income program that would aid 5,000 of the city’s most needy residents with $500 a month.
Senate President Don Harmon said the federal loan was a critical lifeline to keep the state and economy afloat. “That our economy has rebounded so strongly that we can now pay it off early is a testament to the resilience of the people and businesses of the great state of Illinois.”
President Obama talked with the students about the students’ ideas and input for how the Obama Foundation can improve the campus at Obama Presidential Center.
“Alta Farms Two is going to be able to power approximately 57,000 average U.S. households every year. We are talking about 470,000 tons of CO2 annually avoided,” said Tom Swerczewski, the regional lead for development for Enel Green Power North America.
The governor’s proposed budget includes a 10 percent cut to the money municipalities receive from through the Local Government Distributive Fund, or LGDF, costing Illinois cities and villages a combined $125 million.
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin says Illinois has the largest concentration of lead water service lines in the nation.
The school system replaced a parking operator who was indicted with one that’s in arrears to the city and repeatedly has been cited for violations. It also bounced two checks to City Hall.
“Yes, those charged with crimes have the right to the presumption of innocence. But the charges leveled against them are determined by police who do the arresting, and by prosecutors in State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s own office who are looking at the gathered evidence. It defies logic to say they pose no real risk to public and should be allowed to return to their communities in such large numbers, with little supervision.”
“We can’t help suspecting that Lightfoot’s gesture was mostly about her resentment of the scrutiny reporters and commentators of all backgrounds have brought to bear on her record and her policies. Being mayor of Chicago often means a bombardment of criticism, far more than she encountered before making her entry into politics.”
The nonbinding proposal has no legal weight behind it but it would encapsulate some county officials’ outward stance against what they see as increasingly bloated law enforcement budgets that do not represent the values of marginalized constituents.
After years of failed attempts, the odds look more promising than ever for passage before the legislative session ends May 31.
The deal had drawn opposition from many of the company’s journalists at papers in an unusual spate of employee activism. They set up rallies, tried to find local buyers and begged for a rescue in their own newspapers.
“Illinois does offer a number of incentives,” Katherine Loughead, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, said. “That does reduce the burden for newer firms, but once they’ve been in the state for, say, 10 years, a lot of those tax incentives run out and businesses are now left with one of the highest tax burdens in the nation.”
The Election Standardization Act, introduced by Sens. Sally Turner and Sue Rezin, would address several areas of election procedure. “We suggested that they need to train them on additional things such as voter verification, campaign-free zones, electioneering, vote-by-mail processing, provisional balloting, ballot handling and processing,” Turner said.
The Constitution sets the number of justices at seven: three elected from Cook County and four elected from downstate districts. The Second through Fifth districts previously met a constitutional requirement of substantially equal population, but now they are far apart.
Illinois’ abysmal April jobs report comes just weeks after national figures indicated a sharp slowdown in labor market recovery across the nation. However, the slowdown has been much more pronounced in Illinois, with jobs growth essentially halted in Illinois.
The 2025 target is now far out of reach, the jobs expectations went unmet, and the solar industry is laying off workers as the funding that was promised has dried up. Now, state legislative leaders are racing to meet a May 31 deadline to fix its biggest problems — including the impending loss of more than $300 million in funding for renewable energy programs.
The Tax Foundation this month published what it calls a “landmark comparison” of corporate tax costs in all 50 states. It’s certainly the most comprehensive study of its kind and was done in collaboration with KPMG, the accounting, tax and advisory firm. The full study is here and includes lots of interactive tools and comparisons.
The study calculates and analyzes the tax burdens of eight model firms: a corporate headquarters, a research and development facility, a technology center, a data center, a shared services center, a distribution center, a capital-intensive manufacturer, and a labor-intensive manufacturer. Each firm
The former UK Independence Party leader and architect of the country’s “Brexit” from the European Union has been touring the U.S. and recently visited Chicago. ” In Chicago,” he said, “I saw a city that was a complete and utter ghost town. The political differences between
“They were just trying to get as many shots into arms as possible. They were counting numbers,” said Dr. Marina Del Rios, the social emergency medicine director at the University of Illinois Hospital. “This is what happens when you measure success in terms of numbers instead of people. The most vulnerable are left out.”
The Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Sun-Times Lynn Sweet defends the mayor.
State Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford accepted campaign contributions from a Loretto Hospital contractor and Caribbean travel as part of her board duties.
“We have to keep in mind that we have health challenges. They are still with us all around the world and here in Illinois. So just saying ‘fling the doors open,’ that sounds like something that unsafe states do,” Pritzker said in Springfield last week.
State Sen. Ram Villivalam described Senate Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 11: “It proposes to amend the Illinois Constitution to provide that no law passes on or after the amendment’s enactment may prohibit the ability of workers to collectively bargain over wages, hours, terms and conditions.” The measure advanced out of committee without any debate.
Important, reasonable questions are left unanswered, so the state will probably go on borrowing with no concern about them.
Illinois House Majority Leader Greg Harris warned Thursday nothing could be “left unscathed…if we do have to cut $1.3 billion. I mean, nothing is left unscathed. I mean, education will be cut, colleges and universities will be cut, severe cuts to our human services. It’s a very bad scenario.”
The group put together placards with a “People’s Report Card,” which gave Lightfoot a failing grade on a variety of issues, including policing, housing, environmental justice and education.
Washington, D.C., bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times Lynn Sweet told CNN, “But I respectfully want to point out that big newsmakers pick who they want to talk to for one-on-one interviews all the time. I only live in the real world, John, as you do. And we know that when you’re a big newsmaker with many interview requests, you pick and choose.”
“The scary thing is, there are plenty of politicians and lawmakers who are following Lightfoot’s lead, and leading us down a path toward blatant racism. And just like Lightfoot, those who are pushing racism in the name of “equity” have overlooked how their racist moves are only promoting the racism they thinking they’re fighting.”
“If what she says is accepted, as it has been by the Democratic Party, the Chicago virus will advance along the Woke Freeway to Washington, and the idea will get reinforced: It’s OK to reward and punish people based on racial identity.”
A letter to alumni says Marshall’s “contributions to American jurisprudence are well documented. His darker history was unknown by JMLS’s founders and until more recenty, many historians.”
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