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Chicago, Washington, D.C, and Minneapolis saw the lowest year-over-year change of the cities on the list, with increases of just 11 to 12 percent.
“Illinois’s population declined by another 141,039 between spring 2020 and this past summer as 151,512 people on net left the state for other states…Migration from high- to low-tax states—especially those in the Sun Belt—has been going on for well over a decade. But the trend picked up during the pandemic, as Democratic states tended to impose the strictest lockdowns and school closures while those governed by Republicans allowed most businesses and schools to stay open after spring 2020.”
Until abruptly reversing his position, Chief Judge Timothy Evans was virtually alone among the leaders of Illinois and local government in not issuing a vaccine mandate. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and other elected county officials announced their employees were required to get vaccinated months ago.
The city didn’t say if anyone will be checking businesses randomly. Again, they only said investigations are driven by complaints.
Local health departments will continue to have oversight of schools, daycares, and congregate setting, including assistance with mitigation strategies and outbreak management, according to the release.
Since March 2020, Pritzker has used monthly COVID-19 disaster proclamations and dozens of executive orders with varying degrees of restrictions to order people to stay home, close businesses, wear masks and more. Illinois is one of only eight states, all led by Democratic governors, that require masks to be worn in all indoor public places.
“If we are forced to move to a crisis standard of care in our hospitals, it will be because massive numbers of unvaccinated people chose to let others go without quality care, and even more people will die,” Gov. JB Pritzker said.
In fact, prosecutors have filed nothing more than misdemeanor charges even when CTA passengers and employees have been stabbed on the transit system.
Two weeks after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law billed as the nation’s most aggressive mandate for clean energy, the Chicago Democrat’s administration tentatively approved a major new source of heat-trapping pollution.A draft state permit for a new natural gas power plant, planned for a small town south of Springfield, would allow the proposed Lincoln Land Energy Center to emit more carbon dioxide than 800,000 automobiles every year.
The Pulaski Blue Line station in West Garfield Park and the Conservatory Green Line station in East Garfield Park kept more riders than any other stations during the first year of the pandemic, retaining more than half their average daily riders. In contrast, the Merchandise Mart station downtown, which typically served many office commuters, saw the sharpest drop in its average daily riders between 2019 and 2020: about 74%.
First Assistant State’s Attorney Risa Lanier said they have encouraged assistant state’s attorneys to make deals when possible.
The nation’s home prices rose 19.1% in the 12 month period while Chicago tied with Minneapolis for last place among the 20 largest metro areas with a mere 11.5% appreciation.
The question surfaced in a survey titled “Possible Actions for Safety January 2022” ahead of an all-member meeting Tuesday in which the union said it will be “discussing how each member and every school safety committee can contribute to this escalation in our safety campaign.” The survey adds, “Please answer the following very short survey to help guide the CTU’s response to CPS’s inadequate pandemic response.”
The union has claimed 70% of students were in quarantine the week the district handed out 150,000 test kits to students and staff at 300 schools in communities hit hardest by the pandemic. CTU officials said that because so many students were not able to take home test kits, the union has to fill the gap.
That means that, as of Tuesday, every state or territory except for Guam and Montana are on the advisory.
One of the cornerstones of the group’s agenda involved criminal justice reforms.
Despite COVID, the “Great Resignation” and inflation, economists predict growth in the year ahead. And yet Chicago’s outlook isn’t quite so rosy as the rest of the nation’s.
Gov. JB Pritzker and Illinois Department of Public Health Director Ngoze Ezike held a press conference Monday. It was almost overwhelmingly devoted to vaccines and masks, to the exclusion of all else. The subject of treatments was almost entirely ignored. None of the reporters’ questions addressed treatments.
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