It’s an option more and more communities on the North Side may look at and adopt as some residents and businesses fear crime will escalate this summer.
There are currently 2,279 people on the Sheriff’s electronic monitoring program, 817 people ordered to the Chief Judge’s curfew program, and 837 individuals monitored through a third GPS monitoring program operated by the Office of the Chief Judge.
The cost-of-living adjustment would increase the officials’ salaries by 3% each year or the Chicago region consumer price index – whichever is smaller – without requiring an annual vote. Over the last 12 months, the index has increased 7.2%.
The subsidy for the nuclear plants wound up being an investment in price stability, a spokesman said. Because the rising energy prices made Illinois’ nuclear plants more profitable, the power they provide turned into a hedge against high electricity prices, rather than the bailout that lawmakers had envisioned last fall.
It’s the first time all such evidence is being processed within 180 days as required by a 2010 law, according to the governor’s office.
Among other actions, House Bill 260 allows for the use of expressway cameras along Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive. This gives police the ability to use images from expressway cameras to investigate vehicular hijacking and other criminal activities, detect highway conditions and facilitate highway safety. This legislation is effective immediately.
Bill 4589 would raise awareness of health issues particular to men that are not currently or adequately addressed by IPDH, including prostate cancer, testicular cancer, smoking cessation, heart disease, and mental health.
The number of counties at the “high” level marks an increase from last week’s 15, but some Chicago-area counties that were under a high alert level last week have since dropped down to medium.
Republican State Rep. Joe Sosnowski says the statistics from Wirepoints are startling. The research points to fewer than 20% of eighth-graders in Rockford public schools reading at or above grade level. Only 60% of freshmen at RPS are on track to graduate.
Kho, the former managing editor of HuffPost and Guardian US, will start her new position Wednesday and relocate from Los Angeles in September. Kho said she would prioritize data-based investigations and coverage of topics such as pollution, crime-reduction efforts, economics and social change.
In addition to hiking the fines for ethics violations, the measure would expand the number of companies doing business with the city that would be limited to contributing $1,600 to any one candidate per year, expand the city’s rules against nepotism, ban former alderpeople who work as lobbyists from the floor of the Council Chambers, and require aldermen to leave the council committee room during discussions and votes on issues where they have an interest and have recused themselves.
Chad Oxendive, who works in a tree removal business, spends about $280 filling up his truck along with containers with gas to use for equipment. “You’re a working guy. You’re trying to get work done and you’re trying to pay your help and they’re trying to get to work too. It’s a kick in the pants everywhere.”
The rise in rent is now up more than 25% year over year, according to the latest data, and the demand is outpacing the supply.
That is a figure higher than the hourly minimum wage in a dozen states – including Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa.
In a statement issued Tuesday, school officials said the story was not true, and that they have no intention of implementing a race-based grading policy. “We encourage the community to seek information directly from the district or other reliable news sources rather than internet sources that continue to share inaccurate information,” they said.
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