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The Bannockburn-headquartered company plans to consolidate manufacturing of gene therapy medication Zolgensma at its North Carolina manufacturing facility. It plans to fully wind down operations at the Libertyville plant by the end of 2023.
“Democrats will be looking for an ‘exciting’ candidate who can take on a conservative Republican nominee, (political consultant Don) Rose argued. ‘Exciting the way Bernie (Sanders) was, exciting in the way (Barack) Obama was.’ Pritzker, Rose said, has ‘the charisma of a toenail.'”
More than 150 of the students are in Chicago Public Schools. A letter sent by aldermen, teachers, and activists to CPS CEO Pedro Martinez and Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked them to live up to their promise to make Chicago a “Sanctuary City” and listed several demands, including that the mayor and the school district use federal COVID recovery money to help asylum-seeking students, provide translated curriculum, and hire more bilingual staff and a translator for every school.
“Should Amendment 1 pass, it could only be changed or repealed via additional constitutional referendum, effectively usurping the power of the State Legislature to make needed changes in the future,” Illinois Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy said. “While we support workers and their right to organize, the Illinois Republican Party opposes the passage of Amendment 1.”
The Reason Foundation found that only 11 states have mandatory open enrollment laws that allow students to easily transfer to other public schools, and 26 states, including Illinois, allow public schools to charge tuition to public school transfer students.
“A big important state like Illinois enshrining this right to their constitution sends a signal across the country that the right to bargain collectively is a fundamental right,” explains Daniel Galvin, a political scientist and faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research.
Outfitted with red-and-black bomber jackets, dozens of members of Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change patrolled Red Line stations and trains for a week in October to reassure riders, deter trouble and intervene to mitigate conflict. Responding to a similar demand to improve public safety, the group was recently selected as part of a pilot program in Bronzeville to add private security to busy streets and residential areas.
Dan Proft, the radio host and critic of Dem politicians, confirms he has not bought or rented another home here since selling his Lake Point Tower condo. “Nor will I,” he tells Crain’s.
Cultivate Collective, has a $75 million plan to convert vacant land at the former LeClaire Courts public housing complex to a farm, a charter school and greenhouses. There would also be a green business incubator facility, which would contain enough solar panels allowing the structure to be completely energy self-sufficient.
The January merger of the Sun-Times and WBEZ under Chicago Pubic Media ownership was supposed to represent “a national model for the future of local journalism.” Instead it’s opening up CPM to criticism of “union-busting” tactics that could irk the nonprofit’s traditionally progressive donor base just as it starts asking newspaper readers to donate and become members.
The comments amounted to a doubling down of Biden’s climate agenda ahead on the eve of the midterms despite evidence that it has, in part, contributed to a rise in gasoline prices.
Griffin, the head of Citadel, an investment firm, has been donating to political campaigns for more than 20 years, giving $5,000 and $10,000 increments in those early days to Republicans and Democrats alike when he was living in Chicago. Mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel, both Democrats, were beneficiaries. And in 2008, he raised money for both presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. He has given nearly $60 million to federal Republican candidates and campaigns this election cycle.
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France’s oldest newspaper, Le Figaro, sent a reporter to Chicago to look into its crime problem. Wirepoints’ Matt Rosenberg is quoted. A translation follows.
“What should we do? I encourage my fellow conservatives to get involved: run for a school board seat, volunteer for political candidates who want to fix our city, volunteer with organizations that work to address the city’s problems, become a tutor for an ‘at risk’ child.”
Last weekend five juveniles were among 32 shot and five killed across Chicago.
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