Illinois ranks No. 2. The state lacks job opportunities and reached an all-time high for resignations in August last year during the Great Resignation.

“The panel recognizes the potential complexity and challenge of this case for the district court, but also its importance for plaintiff and other providers of health care to Medicaid patients, as well as for the patients themselves,” Judges David Hamilton and Diane Wood wrote.

State Sen. Darren Bailey called the legislation impractical. “Illinois was once an energy exporter, not very long ago. Now we’re on our hands and knees begging to buy energy from others, while our people, our businesses and our hospital worry if they can keep the lights on.”

Head researcher Chuck Casto said. “Eleven percent of the small businesses say they are planning layoffs as early as this month.” Almost half of those who stopped hiring said they were seeking workers earlier this year, but stopped because of high payroll expenses, recessionary fears and reduced revenues.

“I am 60 years old, and I am not going to change who I am,” Lightfoot said. “I will continue to push people, sometimes out of their comfort zone because that is what the people demand of us…We are not going to agree on every issue, but we do not have to. It is a democracy. We debate, and then we compromise.”

“2021 was a really bad year in the United States for police officers feloniously killed, there were 73 of them,” said Wirepoints Senior Editor Matt Rosenberg, who analyzed the data. “We had a 52% jump over the rolling yearly average in 2021.” Rosenberg called it a “great unraveling,” something he said has intensified in the past three years.

Carl Ervin is interim director of the new Office of Justice, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity. He said of the students he works with, “If they can grow, expand, and reach their full potential without these obstacles of complicit bias, unconscious bias, (and) things that get in the way. If we can help our students to feel better, if we can help our students by making the institution a fairer place, then yes, it’s fair. It’s right.”

“We’re trying to get property tax relief for those residents by having that potential issue on a non-binding referendum that we can use to take the state legislator to get that loophole closed,” Springfield Mayor Jim Langfelder said.

Wednesday, the system announced over 94,800 students are enrolled this fall across all three campuses. Total enrollment numbers have increased steadily over the past few years. They’re up 10,000 students from five years ago. The admissions rate dropped from 60% to 45%.

One topic that got most of the focus was the Property Tax Assessment Board. “We have had scandals at the previous assessor’s office and the board of review and unnecessary layers of government,” said Reform for Illinois Director David . “When you have unnecessary layers of government, it usually only helps the insiders while the rest of us pay the freight.”

“And listen to DeVore discuss an important corruption case that corrupt corporate Chicago media ignores, but DeVore isn’t ignoring it. He’s whipping it up and already using it to peel the bark off the governor and his legal wing-man on this one, (Attorney General Kwame) Raoul: It is the Jenny Thornley case and Pritzker and Kwame dig ever deeper into their rabbit hole to hide from it.”

“It’s certainly a run of good news for a city that was disproportionately affected by deindustrialization and subsequent globalization that saw thousands of jobs shipped overseas. This can be measured in many ways, but there’s perhaps no more acute quantification than the number of people who live here. Decatur’s population has declined 25% in the past 40 years, going from 94,081 in 1980 to 70,522 as of the 2020 U.S. Census.”