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“House Bill 3940 ensures highly skilled auto mechanics are compensated at the same rate regardless of whether the vehicle is under warranty,” said Tim Drea, President of the IL AFL-CIO.
“In Chicago, we can be open and be careful,” Dr. Allison Arwady said.
More than a year after it was formed, the City Council’s Subcommittee on Reparations has met only once, and that meeting was sidetracked by a series of speakers who demanded that aldermen ban pet stores from selling dogs, cats and rabbits at a profit to restrict the operations of breeders.
Pritzker had said last week that he planned to attend the four-day music festival, but now his press secretary reports, “Out of an abundance of caution, with cases on a sharply increasing trajectory and with the CDC’s finding Friday that vaccinated individuals can transmit the virus, the governor did not attend Lollapalooza.”
The massive music festival is expected to draw more than 100,000 attendees over the course of the weekend, and the requirements for attendees have changed since the festival began on Thursday. Starting Saturday, participants are required to wear masks indoors, regardless of whether they have been vaccinated. For the first two days of the festival, this was not the case.
The Syndicate was brutal, but it wasn’t random and ubiquitous like violence in the 21st century.
“As with the fraud involving fake claims, the administration of Gov. J.B. Pritzker is providing few details on the scope of the problem, as Pritzker gears up for a reelection battle with Republicans looking to question his record.”
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot took time out last weekend for the perfect place to cool off from the city heat: officiating at the wedding of Chris Kennedy, grandson of the late, great Robert F. Kennedy, and his bride, Erin Daigle, at the legendary Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
“The way we see it is, Facebook thinks it’s wrong to honor a brave police officer who suffered serious wounds while protecting his central Illinois city. How is that remotely political?” executive director of Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police Ed Wojcicki said.
“Illinois is one of 15 states lacking a requirement to balance the budget at the end of the year and prohibiting deficits from being carried year to year. Its balanced budget requirement applies only to the planning stage and allows for significant gimmicks and accounting games to hide deficits.”
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Whether Pritzker supports using ARPA dollars to help replenish the state’s unemployment fund, spokeswoman Jordan Abudayyeh did not say. “The administration looks forward to working on a solution that considers the needs of both businesses and the Illinoisans who rely on these vital programs.”
The $185 million in emergency rental assistance to was distributed to 22,200 Illinoisan.
“It’s tempting to blame this population loss on the ‘rural decay’ trends that afflict many other places in the United States. But according to the people who live there, what’s happening in southern Illinois, locally known as ‘Little Egypt,’ is the result of decades of destructive government policies.”
“What we decided to do was to bring industries within DOC and not worry about sales, predicating that program not on sales, but on vocational training,” said ICI Chief Administrative Officer Jared Brunck. These skills are part of what contributes to ICI workers having a recidivism rate of about 20%; According to state data, the general population of Illinois prisoners had a recidivism rate of 41% last year.
Mayoral control of schools, and the appointed school boards that came along with that model, were pushed by their advocates as a way to allow a schools chief to make decisions that were unpopular but necessary to remake struggling school systems. In Chicago and other places, that made it possible for cities to close hundreds of schools and allow charter schools to grow rapidly — choices that might have been politically impossible with an elected board.
“This isn’t forever, but it is necessary to help decrease the risk for all Chicagoans right now,” public health commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says a deal is coming together to spend $1.2 trillion on infrastructure across the country. “The deal is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebuild our nation’s roads, railways, and bridges; to make high-speed internet and clean water a reality for every household in America; and to create millions of good-paying, family-supporting union jobs across the country.”
It’s the latest twist in the case originally filed by Ald. Edward M. Burke, whose law firm argued Cook County officials had over-assessed Trump’s skyscraper.
Some are reverting to safety measures of recent months, including returns to mask mandates and social distancing. Others are temporarily closing due to positive cases on staff or moving to allow in only vaccinated customers.
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