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Pastor Corey Brooks spent nearly a year on a Chicago rooftop, raising $20 million for a community center that he believes will affect violence and other ills plaguing his South Side community.
“In Chicago, millennials comprised 34 % of the voter turnout, a sign that young adults have embraced their agency and their ability to stand up for rights and opportunity. ..(W)e have seen 9/11, the housing crash, skyrocketing student loan debt, a global pandemic, rampant gun violence and now the rise of right-wing extremism and fascism here in America and abroad.”
Located 30 miles from Chicago, the base is home to 15,726 active-duty service members. Including military family members and other dependents, there are a total of 21,875 people at the base.
Kankakee and Freeport were two of seven Illinois municipalities forced to place home rule referendums on the Nov. 8 ballot because of reported population drops. Others were Carbondale, Harvey, Melrose Park, Collinsville and East St. Louis. All survived, with margins of victory ranging from 53% to 47% in Harvey, to an 80% to 20% split in Melrose Park.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke out against the mass shooting that took place at Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ nightclub Sunday morning. She tweeted: “I’m sick of this sh*t. How many people need to be murdered? How many lives torn apart? Until it actually stops? We don’t have to live like this. And we don’t have to die like this.”
In addition to those pending matters, Avondre Carroll has been arrested by Chicago police eleven times since he turned 18 last year, and he is awaiting trial in adult court for aggravated assault of a school employee, officials said.
Jim Dey: “For now, Illinois is OK in the short-term. But in the long-term, it’s still the same old story — look out below. Pension and retiree health care debts exceed $200 billion. The state’s chronic under-funding of its public pensions remains an albatross hanging over the state’s. Even as the state prepares to direct 20% of its annual budgets for the rest of the decades to pension, its pension and retiree health care debts will continue to increase.”
CME Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy, who has been one of Bankman-Fried’s fiercest critics, said he won’t stop crypto-futures trading just because of “one bad actor.” Cboe Global Markets, another Chicago exchange, and software provider Trading Technologies also recommitted to digital assets in the wake of the FTX meltdown.
Participant Christopher Santiago, a father of three daughters who works for the Illinois Department of Transportation, said, “Other benefit programs like SNAP or something, you have all these restrictions, like you can’t even buy hot meals with some of those programs. So having direct cash just gives me the freedom, because you know like if I got a flat tire or something like that, I don’t have to worry about it being an appropriate expense or having to even keep track of you know that expense, I can just take care of whatever needs to be taken care of and
The state of Illinois is reporting record tax revenue on legal marijuana, with nearly half a billion dollars in the last year. Illinois consumers pay the second highest taxes in the nation when they buy legal recreational marijuana. However, experts claim lowering taxes could mean more money for the organizations that benefit from those funds.
“It’s time for an entirely new Illinois GOP — from top to bottom, including the political consulting class. Until that happens, national Republicans can count Illinois out.”
A WBEZ analysis shows that as the district’s population is shifting, so too are its political leanings. Northwest Indiana’s blue strongholds continue to lose population while many of the areas that have gained residents are Republican-leaning or have become more red in the last several years.
The school’s free-speech principles compel it to allow a controversial course on ‘whiteness.’ But as a bad idea, the class should be abandoned thereafter.
“I think it’s important to have a physical presence – not just having a squad car parked somewhere with their lights on,” retailer Scott Shapiro said. “I understand that it’s great for optics, but it does nothing to reassure that the merchants like myself, or the customers, that they are safe.”
Real estate players may be riding the choppy waves of the 2022 market on Chicago’s inland sea like Captain Ahab, yet the behemoth antagonizing them isn’t a white whale but instead a property tax bill.
Fencik is not willing to run. Good for him and his family. The campaign for mayor is a snake pit. And those who’ve ruined the city want to kick it to death, and those who’d fight for the city will themselves be shamed and crushed.
A new analysis shows the federal tax dollars sent to Illinois and other states since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds were used to support public health, education and to temporarily aid Illinois’ financial condition.
Legislators took action Wednesday on a bill that would effectively cut all financial ties between Illinois and Russia. The Illinois Senate gave House Bill 1293, also known as the Russian Divestment Act, its third reading and passed it unanimously 50-0 with nine not voting.
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