Asked about a COVID disaster proclamation that continues through May 28, the governor said, “You know, my philosophy from the beginning has been that this is about trying to keep people alive. It’s about maintaining lives and livelihoods. And I’ve leaned on the side of keeping people alive, because you can’t have a livelihood if you don’t have a life.”
“Call to arms against the Supreme Court,” Rogan said. “That is so crazy.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will restrict juveniles without a “responsible adult” from entering Millennium Park after 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. “We, as a City, can not allow any of our public spaces to become platforms for danger,” she said.
The new graduation requirement is an outcome of recommendations for a diversity requirement made by ISU’s Campus Climate Assessment Task Force in 2017.
“Pritzker has touted pouring an extra $100 million into DCFS’ budget yearly, as well as an additional $250 million in the budget year that begins in July. But money alone will not fix what’s wrong at DCFS…(S)tate Rep. Rita Mayfield, a Waukegan Democrat, didn’t mince words about his leadership. ‘Every year you guys come back and ask for more money,’ she said. ‘You tell us the same stories that you’re going to hire more case managers. You’re going to address these issues and nothing happens. Your budget is one of the largest budgets in the state of Illinois, and we’re
Matt Paprocki, of the Illinois Policy Institute: “Lawmakers didn’t use the federal windfall to close the deficit in the state unemployment insurance trust fund or repay the federal loan used to prop up the fund during the pandemic. Now job creators and small businesses must do so, and they are facing job-killing state and federal payroll hikes.
The core of the problem is difficult to address with any policy: Many people simply do not want to cooperate with police or prosecutors.
“Illinois is going to be ground zero,” said David S. Cohen, a professor at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia. “Illinois is just closer to more people who are going to be in states where abortion is going to be banned.”
Most of that work will fall to the Illinois Gaming Board, a state agency that has historically been understaffed and underfunded. The launching of the Chicago casino comes as the Gaming Board has seen its staff shrink modestly since Pritzker signed into law a massive gambling expansion that drastically increased the regulatory agency’s workload.
A full list of 127 bills signed Friday is linked here, but a sampling includes bills that: provide that the State Board of Elections shall provide a certified remote accessible vote by mail system for the General Election of November 8, 2022; require a school district to provide a plant-based school lunch option to students; prohibit ISBE from providing districts funding for standardized tests for students in kindergarten through 2nd grade.
However, despite the celebratory tone struck by the members of the Black Caucus and their supporters, members of the Latino Caucus remained silent — an indication that the racially polarizing debate that is set to be resolved just three days before the deadline has left deep scars.
“Nobody should think that what we passed in [the state’s clean energy law] is reducing the amount of energy that we are able to provide across the state of Illinois,” he said. “What we are doing is incentivizing the creation of more energy production in our state. That’s what’s going on.”
Chicago’s rapacious use of fines and fees to generate revenue, particularly for minor traffic violations and nonmoving offenses, has been the subject of numerous news investigations, lawsuits, and calls for reform over the past several years.
Eighty-five percent of agritourism businesses in Illinois are small operations with revenues around $25,000 a year. Yet unlike similar businesses in 31 other states, in Illinois agritourism businesses are saddled with high liability insurance costs.
“There is tremendous power in the speakership — the ability and resources to reward and punish his colleagues with cash, people power and appointments. These donors can be seen as helping a qualified woman of color contribute to the public good. But they could also be viewed as trying to curry favor and get ahead with their powerful leader. That went on all day long in the Madigan era.”
A total of 23 counties in Illinois are now rated at the medium community level, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Johnson, Kane, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, Logan, Mason, McHenry, McLean, Ogle, Peoria, Sangamon, Whiteside, Will, and Winnebago counties.
The legislation requires any towing service working within the jurisdiction of a given police agency to submit an application for inclusion on that police agency’s tow rotation list. Divers will also need to go through background checks, insurance, and licensing.
Police said hundreds of young people were at Millennium Park Saturday night and began flooding surrounding streets. The first shooting took place about 7:30 p.m., when a 16-year-old boy was shot in the chest.
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