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“We are operating in an environment where the public expects transparency, and there’s a lot of misinformation about law enforcement in general,” McHenry County Sheriff’s Chief of Operations John Miller said. “A picture speaks a thousand words sometimes. It would just be another layer of transparency [to show] we’re doing the right thing.”
Measuring the amount of virus in sewage can point to community trends that help health officials pinpoint their response and control efforts during the pandemic. The Health Department is funding the program through $2.14 million provided by the federal government.
“The fact that such a significant mischaracterization could be asserted without sufficient vetting, repeated by figureheads of the (Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office) and then never corrected or clarified — particularly in a case the (office) knows has captured the public attention — is unacceptable for an office that must be transparent and maintain public confidence,” Dan Webb’s report states.
“When we’re like, as a small business, worried about constantly being robbed like that – we’re very easy to break into – and we’re not getting any response,” the bike shop owner said, “and I’m not blaming the police or anything – I’m sure they have a multitude of cases…There doesn’t seem to be a collaborative effort, to solve this problem.”
Adam Schuster, of the Illinois Policy Institute: “Doing nothing endangers the long-term viability of Illinois’ public servants’ retirement plans. It takes away resources that should protect the health and welfare of the state’s most vulnerable. It threatens the economic well-being of every current and future resident of the state.”
“But the mayor fell short of offering any fresh strategies, hitting a series of familiar themes in an address of about 40 minutes…While saying the city must address ‘root causes’ of crime, including poverty, Lightfoot called for U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to send additional agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to go after illegal guns and more prosecutors to bring additional criminal cases at the federal level.”
Attorney Stephan Blandin said the $21 million ComEd suggested paying is far from the ill-gotten gains they think the utility gained improperly. “If you look at Commonwealth Edison’s profits over that time period, it’s close to about $5 billion. If you look at how much the ratepayers have subsidized Commonwealth Edison to pay for all these illegal programs that came down, the number is actually closer to about $12 billion.”
The six-minute narrated video from the IEA shows a mock detective’s board with a variety of groups and individuals it strings together, saying they’re trying to make schools less safe and tear down teachers’ unions.
According to a study by MoneyGeek, the average credit card debt for Illinois cardholders in the 2nd quarter of this year was $5,365. That is slightly lower than the national average, but higher than in neighboring states
Illinois has consistently placed third in the country in sports betting handle behind New Jersey and Nevada, but the registration change could alter that said Joe Boozell of PlayIllinois.com.
For example, the union representing DCFS workers could demand a contract provision prohibiting the state from performing background checks or from reviewing employees’ work – under the auspices that such provisions relate to a “condition of employment.” If the state doesn’t go along, the union could call a strike.
The ruling carries implications for pending arbitration between the city and more than 20 other unions over Lightfoot’s mandate. The mayor, emboldened by the favorable ruling, claimed her administration will continue to win challenges against the vaccination policy.
The mayor said 51 people have been arrested for a shooting or murder while on electronic monitoring this year, and there is “often [no] meaningful supervision” for people in the program. Local judges have let “almost 2,300 offenders with these charges back onto our streets, in our neighborhoods, on our blocks,” Lightfoot said. “It defies common sense, it is not safe, and this practice must be stopped immediately.”
An RTA survey of riders in 2021 found that a majority of lapsed riders planned to return when the pandemic receded, but ridership gains have been stymied by rising COVID cases from emerging variants, vaccine hesitancy and the resulting changes in office re-opening plans. System ridership realized only modest gains from 2020 to 2021 and is projected to end the year around half of pre-pandemic levels.
“Writing at Wirepoints, Mark Glennon comments: It should come as no surprise that the Our City, Our Safety Plan has not worked. Look through it yourself. It’s mostly social justice gibberish.”
“This extension is necessary as my office continues to address the heavy customer volume caused by the COVID-19 pandemic through expanded online services and the introduction of appointments at select Driver Services facilities,” White said.
Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation in 2019 putting the state on the path to a $15 an hour minimum wage by 2025. There have been three increases in the minimum wage since the governor signed the wage hike legislation.
Special Prosecutor Dan Webb said that State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her top deputies had notable procedural errors behind the scenes, and false statements to the public, including the assertion that Smollett was treated much the same as defendants in deferred prosecution programs offered by the courts, and that the evidence against the actor was weak.(Full report linked)
Because of his religious beliefs, Kurt Beathard takes issue with the Black Lives Matter organization’s embrace of Marxism. For that reason, he “removed the Black Lives Matter poster from his office door and replaced it with his own message: ‘All Lives Matter to Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.’”
“I started school in Chicago just two months before my eighth grade graduation. I might not remember my middle school classmates’ names or faces, but I definitely remember the lockdown drill I experienced soon after arriving…Back in Nigeria, I had never even heard a gunshot. I used to play outside a lot there.”
“Soros prosecutors refuse to enforce laws against shoplifting, drug trafficking, and entire categories of felonies and misdemeanors. In Chicago, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx allows theft under $1,000 to go unpunished. In Manhattan, District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. refuses to enforce laws against prostitution.”
This display features the baby goat demon Baphomet atop a blue silk blanket in clear mockery of Christ’s nativity scene.
Mark and Ted sit down with Frank McCormick, a history teacher from Waukegan that is fighting back against a wave of CRT and other progressive politics that are starting to infiltrate public school curriculums in Illinois and around the country.
“Critics probably will say Pritzker got snookered into paying for property the state already owns. That’s not so. It’s like state government is trading in an eight-track player, with Reschke promising surround sound in return. It’s also important the arrangement lets the government reduce leasing costs downtown.”
“Chicago has lost 57 school-aged children to gun violence this year, 16 of them in elementary or middle school…In 2020, 49 kids were killed, 12 of them before they reached high school. Dozens more 18-year-olds, who were either current or recent students, were fatally shot, their deaths also reverberating in their school communities. Then there are the kids who are injured in shootings but survive, like the Phillips Academy High School student who, along with a security guard, was struck by gunfire as she walked out of the building this fall.”
There were 27 shot, four fatally, last weekend in Chicago.
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