Many factors are driving up the price of farmland in central Illinois – NPR (Illinois)
Farmland values are up 23% from a year ago across the Midwest, fueled by surging commodity prices.
Farmland values are up 23% from a year ago across the Midwest, fueled by surging commodity prices.
The Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund is severely underfunded. A combination of pension holidays, statutory underfunding, benefit enhancements, optimistic assumptions and other long-term problems have all contributed to its condition.

The California-based EV company recently indicated it would trim its workforce 6% nationwide by eliminating some non-manufacturing jobs.
Comment: Pritzker and the Democratic Party are among those who spent millions to achieve the nomination of Darren Bailey for the same reasons.
The multipronged story stems around former state employee and former Pritzker campaign worker Jenny Thornley and includes alleged overtime fraud, unfounded allegations of sexual assault, and alleged worker’s compensation fraud. David Robinson, chief deputy director of the State’s Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, wrote in the email obtained through a public records request, “[The appellate prosecutor’s office] has never done – to my knowledge – any worker’s compensation fraud case. Our experience has been that those issues are directed to the AG’s worker’s comp fraud division.”
A small town with an adorable downtown, Mattoon is offering $5,000 cash to cover moving expenses, a year membership at a co-working space and six months of free internet, among other incentives to visit local stores and businesses.
Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that a total of 97 counties in Illinois are at high or medium.
French artist Jean Dubuffet’s sculpture “Monument with Standing Beast,” once dubbed “Snoopy in a Blender,” will move to the former BMO Harris Bank building at 115 S. LaSalle St. – the building recently purchased by the state to replace some of the office space lost with the Thompson Center sale.
“An example of questionable disclosure practices is found in the Illinois budgeting and financial reporting process, specifically regarding pension contributions.”
Some of the same groups that supported taxing retirement income and doubling the gas tax are now pushing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing $2,100 in higher property taxes for Illinoisans.
A man who was singled out by the Chicago police superintendent as an example of an alleged murderer who should not have been released on electronic monitoring, only to be found not guilty six months later, allegedly ran from a crashed car in the Loop Thursday evening, leaving behind a bag containing $8,000 in marijuana and a loaded handgun. Prosecutors charged him with the pot that was in the bag, but they did not charge him with the gun that allegedly had an auto-switch and extended magazine attached, leaving a Cook County judge dumbfounded.
During the past six years alone, federal records show, more than 615,000 tons of sludge from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago has been plowed into 29,000 acres near the nation’s third largest city. (All of that land combined is roughly the size of west suburban Aurora.)
“(Former Supt. Lawrence) Wyllie’s compensation was tied to the district’s financial performance, feds alleged in their indictment. Wyllie allegedly cooked the books to make it appear the district’s finances were in better shape than they really were. But the alleged scheme collapsed and the district had to mothball one its four schools to save money.”
Video shot near 119th Street and Halsted Avenue shows dozens of people standing in the intersection as drivers drift, do donuts and rev their engines. Chicago police eventually arrived on the scene, but no one was arrested.
According to the Illinois Hotel and Lodging Association, historically, Lollapalooza is the organization’s biggest weekend of the year. Last year’s Lolla crowd pulled in over $300 million in tax revenue at the city and state level, while since the festival’s founding in 2010, Lollapalooza has generated $2 billion-plus in tax revenue overall.
“For a while we simply didn’t have replacement front brakes for the OG blue bikes and were slapping on ones from retired bikes,” the former Divvy worker wrote. The said there was a general sense of dysfunction at the maintenance facility. “We didn’t even have adequate trash cans in the warehouse… Now it’s completely undersized for the scale of the operation among dealing with the logistical challenges of lock anywhere ebikes and swapping a crazy amount of
“Deputy Raymond Arce heard our message while serving in Chicago and made the great decision to move here to be a Florida hero,” Moody said. “The nation is starting to realize that, in Florida, we back the blue and our leaders appreciate and support those who risk their safety in service to others.” Arce said he didn’t feel appreciated by the residents of Chicago or by the city’s leadership.

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