“Hotels will recover. It’s just a matter of when,” said Michael Jacobson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association. “I think today’s report shows you that with Chicago’s reliance on business travel, it’s going to take us much longer than hotels in many other cities.”

Among Pierce’s alleged victims is Amari Brown, who was just 7 years old when he was shot and killed on a Humboldt Park neighborhood sidewalk in 2015.

Several NFL teams have used public financing to pay for new stadiums, including a 45% share of Minnesota Vikings stadium, and a whopping 86% share in Indianapolis for the Colts stadium. The Bears previously discussed the possibility of building a stadium in Arlington Heights nearly 50 years ago, but instead renovated Soldier Field with the state of Illinois raising funds to help the team do so.

Local and state funding to train and hire more school counselors or provide support for students is increasingly crowded out by ballooning administrative costs and pension burdens. Reforms that could put more money toward students include consolidating district-level administration as well as changing the Illinois Constitution so the growth rate of public pensions can be controlled.

The American Hotel & Lodging Association projects hotels in the metropolitan area will end the year with just $346 million in revenue, an 86% cut from the $2.53 billion grossed in 2019.

Among them, know that his approach to pandemic recovery in San Antonio centered on boosting mental health staff and adding 30 days to the school calendar. After San Antonio ISD saw a 5% enrollment drop last school year, Martinez also led an effort to re-engage with students; That included making home visits and tapping bus drivers to make calls between routes.

A recent follow-up report found, while the department has developed better search functions in its Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting (CLEAR) system, and has converted some paper files to digital formats, “CPD has yet to implement most of the improvements to which it committed.”

Judge Moshe Jacobius, who put an indefinite hold on the dispensary permits, explained, “Counsel says that if you ultimately rule that the whole structure was improper, then the whole thing will have to be redone over again. That may very well be, but I can’t anticipate what’s going to happen. … But then, everybody then would be subject to just another application process or another lottery, who knows what.”

“We have had pursuits here in Indiana and [the] majority of them they wind up on 80/94,” said Indiana State Police Sgt. Glen Fifield. “It’s not uncommon for them to make a run for the Illinois-Indiana border.”

“But asset seizures strike us as an outdated approach that might’ve worked in the 1980s against East Coast organized crime bosses and South Florida drug dealers, but would be virtually useless in curbing the violence on the streets of Chicago today — especially given that the violence is concentrated in poor neighborhoods where assets are few to begin with.”