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Sullivan, a 37-year-old who hails from Petersburg in Menard County, says that he is looking to shake up the status quo in Springfield. He started his own venture capital firm in San Francisco, and has returned to his central Illinois roots for his first-ever political contest.
Sullivan didn’t mention COVID-19 during his announcement; Afterward, he told members of the media he would not make unilateral decisions on the pandemic. “I’m someone who is a decentralized person who allows local leaders…why elect local school boards if you’re going to take away any authority to make decisions locally.”
The roll call, which brought all available officers from the district to 1 East Hubbard, was announced at 1:41 a.m. Four minutes later, the first of this morning’s armed robberies was reported just a few blocks away
Meanwhile, a judge also Thursday tossed a separate lawsuit related to the ComEd investigation, finding that it fell short of showing the alleged bribery of Madigan directly led to passage of legislation favoring ComEd.
“In the interest of public health, New York City, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Puerto Rico have all begun requiring proof of vaccination for persons visiting public indoor settings,” the aldermen wrote in their letter. “We believe it is time for Chicago to do the same.”
“I come because no one answers the phone,” said Alfonso Cababa, a cook who has been out of work since the pandemic began. He waited outside the only open Chicago IDES location in Pilsen, because he’s not having luck getting help on the phone, but he was turned away because he didn’t have an appointment.
CTU President Jesse Sharkey said, “And she is responsible for the frightening lack of safety and the numerous COVID outbreaks in schools across the city. Our school communities need trust, truth, transparency and leadership from the mayor and her team at CPS. Instead, they continue to stonewall educators, parents and the public about safety issues in a pandemic.”
The Illinois House on Thursday voted along party lines to accept changes to an ethics bill that Gov. JB Pritzker had requested, paving the way for it to become law once the governor signs it.
“The truth is that children in Chicago are in far less danger of dying from COVID than they are from getting shot and killed. ”
Prosecutors allege that Crestwood Mayor Louis Presta accepted a $5,000 cash-filled envelope in a 2018 meeting with a representative from red-light camera company SafeSpeed. He is also accused of filing false tax returns in 2015 and 2018 and failing to file income taxes in 2014.
Illinois House Democrats and Gov. J.B. Pritzker appear to have reached agreement on an energy policy that would set a path to a carbon-free future while also putting customers on the hook for a nearly $700 million bailout of scandal-plagued Commonwealth Edison’s parent company.
“However, the State of Illinois capital plan does not include a comprehensive statewide capital improvement plan that establishes priorities to balance capital needs with available resources, pairs capital projects with funding sources, helps ensure orderly repair and maintenance of capital assets and provides an estimate of the size and timing of future debt issuance. Rather, it primarily includes a list of projects.”
“It’s an anxious time for local officials and residents in Byron, a city of about 3,600, and surrounding communities in Ogle County and beyond as they wait for action in Springfield. If Exelon follows through on its threat, there’s little hope for replacing a plant that has powered the area’s economy, along with millions of homes across northern Illinois, for close to four decades.”
Chicago’s McCormick Place, the largest convention center in the U.S., laid off 90% of its 2,800 workers last year after 234 events were canceled, said Larita Clark, the CEO of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority. But the Black Women’s Expo recently held the largest event in its history in Chicago, with 432 vendors and thousands of masked attendees.
There were a similar number of filings the previous week.
“Another interesting look is at policy decisions and local leadership, which had a bit more balanced results. However, of the items listed, the effectiveness of City of Chicago leadership ranked as the top concern. Uncertainty on Cook County property taxes ranked a close second while the effectiveness of state leadership was the third issue of most concern among those surveyed. “
State Rep. Avery Bourne says legislative Democrats and Governor JB Pritzker know they didn’t go far enough. “This should really be a call to lawmakers to wake up and pass something that isn’t window dressing, but will actually get at the foundational problems that allow this culture of corruption in Springfield.”
Two cases at the Roscoe Village high school have led to a staggering 408 identified as close contacts. All of them are now in quarantine.
As part of the Chicago Families Forward Fund, more than $9 million in financial assistance will be distributed across CPS families with educational and living expenses before the end of the Fall 2021 semester.
Illinois has lost more full-time equivalent students over the last decade than any other state in the country. Tuition has doubled in the past 15 years, pushing it to the 4th-highest in the country. And administrative bloat has siphoned money from university classrooms.
A new research report looked at pensions from both teacher and taxpayer perspectives, and they distinguished how retirement systems are expected to perform for teachers who are in them for the short, medium and long term. Illinois ranked last.
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski appeared on WQAD on ABC 8 in Moline. He was on to talk about why the proposed issuance of bonds to pay for East Moline’s pension shortfall is bad for residents.
The lawsuit, filed in 2015, argued that CPD used the practice to disproportionately stop and search minorities, and that the practice violated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
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