”This select committee I voted against creating because I knew it would turn into a partisan circus if Speaker Pelosi did what she did,” Davis said. ”She didn’t seat us, didn’t seat two members of the committee, which is unprecedented. And that is something that has never happened in the history of the House,.”
With his email, chief of investigations James Roache became the second high-ranking member of Foxx’s office this year to mention their personal integrity in an unexpected farewell message to staff members. Natosha Toller, head of the criminal prosecution branch, did the same thing in February.
Her attorney said graduate student Maggie Dejong “never violated any university policy…Yet the university issued no-contact orders against her, prohibiting her from fully participating in classes, including discussions about race relations and the police, simply because they deemed her or her beliefs as unwelcome.”
Bill Bergman, instructor of finance at the University of Loyola Chicago, said the system is in a worse position now than at the beginning of the year. “The state’s investments have performed very poorly over the last six to eight months. As a result, the pension plan is in much worse condition than it was eight months ago.”
In Illinois, foreign investors control 2.6% of agricultural land. The Illinois Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act requires a foreign person or corporation that buys agricultural land in Illinois to report the purchase to the Director of Agriculture within 90 days or pay a stiff fine.
Chicago’s reservation rate on OpenTable is still nearly 35% below 2019’s rate. The rest of Illinois is down 31%.
In 2014, the county lodged a suit alleging the bank violated the U.S. Fair Housing Act by extending home loans to minorities with rates and terms more burdensome than those imposed on whites. On Feb. 10, Judge Elaine Bucklo threw out the suit, finding the county’s case “weak on many fronts” and the evidence was “uncontroverted” that the bank’s policies and practices were based on “race-neutral criteria.”
Dozens of protesters shut down an intersection near Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home Saturday, saying they are being priced out of their homes as developers snatch up property near Jackson Park.
A total of 16 street ambassadors, donning blue and yellow vests, began patrolling North Michigan Avenue Friday, acting as eyes and ears and serving as additional help to visitors and locals. Furthermore, they’re also helping Chicago police combat crime.
Illinois residents spend on average $2,029 each month across the top 10 household bills, 1.3% above the national average of $2,003.
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski said now, nearly 27 months after the start of the pandemic, the lack of a dollar figure of fraud is unacceptable.
When you add up all the price increases due to inflation, Illinoisans are paying $4,386 more for the same goods and services this year compared with last year.
Jim Dey: “Policy analysts at Wirepoints recently took an in-depth look at K-12 public-school report-card data, and concerned parents will not be impressed. After discovering across-the-board failure of achievement in reading and math, they charged school officials with ‘absolute dereliction of duty.'”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has committed $46 million from the pandemic recovery plan to plant 75,000 trees in the next five years as part of the “Our Roots Chicago” initiative, a pace of roughly 15,000 trees a year. But the city has acknowledged that it would take at least that many trees planted annually over 10 years — and potentially thousands more — to make up for the past decade’s losses.
“And I think we need to suspend the filibuster in order to have this vote on some real sensible gun control legislation,” Duckworth said.
Likely Republican voters are giving Gov. Pritzker’s reelection campaign exactly what it wants, which is so unlike them.
“The issues driving voters this year are inflation, crime, corruption, taxes, and schools. These are all Republican issues. A majority of Illinois voters are ready to vote Republican on these issues this year, if we offer a candidate who can stand out in the Republican crowd.”
While FBI Washington clung to Christopher Steele’s dossier until even the anti-Trump “seventh floor” had to let go, FBI Chicago — with a rookie agent no less — greeted the Alfa case with immediate skepticism.
“If they live in a big city like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, they worry about becoming a crime statistic, floating away in that urban river of violence. If they live in rural areas, they’re forced to balance the need for paying for gas and a long drive to work with the need for food. They know something has gone terribly wrong with their country. But there is no other place for them to go.”
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