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The additional revenue for the area would come from the extension of the Near North Tax Increment Financing District.
“There is no reasonable explanation for issuing valet permits to serve taverns and nightclubs that have built a business model around bottle service and rounds of shots,” said Ald. Brendan Reilly, whose goal is to prevent patrons of Chicago’s lively bar scene from driving home drunk.
Brown served as host at last May’s swearing in ceremony for Tiffany Henyard, the first female Mayor of Dolton, who calls Brown her Godmother and mentor. “I think the influence of Dorothy Brown hasn’t been the greatest influence on the mayor,” said Dolton Trustee Edward Steave.
Lightfoot said she does not expect shortages of officers, but explained there are contingency plans in place. “I don’t want to get into all the details of the contingency plan, but the state police have been incredible partners with us, particularly over these last two years, so if there’s a need for us to lean into those resources, then we will.”
Chicago is still in the substantial risk category, with over 300 cases of Covid per day. For the mask mandate to be lifted, CDPH’s Dr. Allison Arwady said we would need to be in the moderate risk category – which would be fewer than 200 daily cases.
“The law says that if you have a sincere moral conviction that stems from your belief in God, then your employer has to respect that,” said the attorney representing six nurses employed by Riverside Healthcare in Kankakee.
“There is no other type of reason to have this gun with no markings on it,” Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said. “Unless you are going to be committing an offense.”
“People are interested in buying farmland because they are afraid that inflation could reduce the value of holding money in other forms,” said Mike Doherty, of the Illinois Farm Bureau. “We want to see if this is sustained and what kind of land classes we are talking about.”
Chicago plans to return to the bond market in force over the next year to tap a portion of $4.66 billion of existing borrowing authority and $4.4 billion of newly requested capacity in a mix of new money and refunding deals under its general obligation, securitization, and revenue-backed credits.
The state’s goal exceeds estimates by groups such as Illinois PIRG, which did a report in 2018 estimating there would be only 88,000 EVs in Chicago by 2030. Illinois PIRG Director Abe Scarr thinks rebates could boost EV ownership, but he doubts the incentives alone will make it happen, especially since the rebate amount falls off by 2028.
The state’s filing also took aim at the firefighters’ claims to a right to “bodily autonomy.” While the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision in Roe v Wade appeared to establish such a right, the Pritzker administration argued such a right is not “absolute,” and can be violated by the state to promote public health goals.
“Amid a pandemic where food insecurity rose and grocery stores, at times, shuttered, BIPOC farmers on the south and the west side stepped in to donate fresh produce, run hyperlocal CSAs (community supported agriculture), and bring neighbors into the fold of how to run an urban farm…(The) economic downturn and exacerbated hunger crisis was so significant last year that food insecurity in Cook County was projected to increase by 48 percent from 2019 to 2020, according to Feeding America.”
“It’s not clear whether the exchanges will affect her ability to pass this year’s budget this fall. But they highlight Lightfoot’s combative approach to politics, which often manifests at news conferences and in private meetings with her fellow elected officials.”
Comparable data shows Chicago’s homicide rate in 2021 (annualized) is six times larger than New York’s and three times bigger than Los Angeles’. Chicago has lost nearly 30 people per 100,000 in population to homicides compared to ten in Los Angeles and just five in New York.
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski joins Scott Slocum on WJOL in Joliet. They discussed how the influx of federal cash to Cook County and Chicago inflated their respective budgets by 40% and 60%. They also discussed how the increase in federal cash could help bolster Pritzker and Lightfoot’s re-election odds.
FOP President John Catanzara explained what makes Chicago Police different than all city employees facing this same mandate. “I guess, for one, we work a profession that nobody wants at this point. They can’t get anyone to take this job. The other unions in this city have seemed to literally just lay down and decided, ‘Let them [the FOP] take the lead. If they win, we all win. Let them have the fight.'”
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