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Illinois’ jobs malaise continues. The latest release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the state’s unemployment rate increased to 4.7 percent in November, up from 4.6 percent the month before.
Police said in a news release the two deceased victims were boys who were each shot in the head; one was 14 years old and the other was 15.
Rather than by the talk of interest rate hikes and economic downturn that dominate the headlines and have impacted the national industrial market, a drop in demand in the Chicago-area industrial market last quarter was instead driven by lack of supply as vacancy hit a record low, according to a third-quarter report from Colliers.
Vandalism and violence prompted federal agents to open an investigation in 1998 into Local 150, according to Dugan’s FBI file, recently obtained by the Sun-Times. The investigation, dubbed Operation Paving Justice, lasted six years before it was shut down in 2004 without any criminal charges being filed, though investigators estimated there had been $70 million in “equipment and property” damage.
U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García is collecting nearly $70,000 a year in a taxpayer-funded pension while serving in Congress. Mayor Lori Lightfoot took $210,000 out of her retirement accounts to supplement her salary at City Hall — paying a big penalty in the process. And Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson has reported making $2,530 as a “media personality” on WCPT.
The Student First Principles Coalition, founded just two months ago, aims to produce candidates for Tazewell County’s school boards who stand against politically-charged issues like critical race theory and COVID-19 mask mandates.
An Illinois school for students with disabilities has routinely used the police to handle discipline, resulting in the highest arrest rate of any district in the country. In one recent year, half of Garrison School students were arrested.
“Any services they need, we want to provide them,” Rockford’s mayor said. “But now, because of the federal court’s ruling, we can no longer send police out there.”
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