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Stellantis has announced that it will idle its plant in Belvidere, Illinois and move Jeep Cherokee production to the Toluca plant in Mexico.
Pritzker announced in the meeting that he had a conference call scheduled at 10:30 a.m. last Friday to “land the plane” on a deal that would bring electric vehicles to the Belvidere plant. Instead, Stellantis said during the meeting that the plant would be going idle for at least six months starting in February with all hourly and salary workers receiving WARN notices.
“For now, I may just have to settle for memories of the city I so deeply love. The thing is, I shouldn’t have to settle. None of us should. As Americans, we shouldn’t have to think twice before visiting any town or city. That this sentiment exists is a sign that our country is broken – hopefully, just temporarily.”
A group of low-income residents of Cook County, Illinois is getting their first $500 checks this week from the $42 million two-year program, which organizers say is the largest-ever such initiative in the US. Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County board president, who aims to make permanent the experimental program, isn’t alarmed by rising inflation. She is calling on federal funds to help expand programs nationwide.
Thirty-four newspaper entities received $27 million in forgiven Paycheck Prtection Program loans… some took more than one. That is what Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski, and James Piereson, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discovered in their analysis of payments to various entities.
Lack of broadband access and slow internet speeds keep Illinois corn and soybean farmers from higher productivity. A new initiative seeks to improve that.
The self-described ‘liberal’ teacher, Heather Marie Godbout, said, ‘Indoctrination? yes please!’
On Thursday, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) gave his farewell speech on the House floor. After serving since 2011, he decided not to seek reelection in 2022, after Illinois State Democrats pretty much redistricted his seat out of existence. That’s some reward for obsessively criticizing former and potentially future President Donald Trump under the bus, isn’t it? In the time leading up to his retirement from Congress, he has continuously been throwing his own party under the bus, and his farewell speech was no different.
Despite the padded figures it gave to federal regulators, the Chicago Housing Authority is not finished fulfilling its obligations to build homes and redevelop communities where its high-rises once stood.
The city’s Pilsen neighborhood used to be home to Polish immigrants. Now it’s mostly Latino. Both groups see much at stake in the fate of a replica of Michelangelo’s Pietà.
Agriculture has benefited from consistent support on both sides of the aisle, in Washington D.C. and at the Illinois statehouse. The Illinois Farm Bureau wants to keep it that way, Bureau President Richard Guebert Jr. told The Center Square.
Odd as it sounds, the Satanic Temple does not recognize a Biblical Satan. It is a self-described nontheistic group dedicated to the pursuit of religious plurality, free thought and pushing back against any form of conformist doctrine. It’s not like we’re out here eating babies in the State Capitol rotunda, a Temple member said. The holiday ceremony, for instance, did not include goat sacrifices. No one condemned the nation to hellfire. The message was religious diversity.
A recent report by the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization found Illinois ranked third on a list of states with the highest number of drag events that were targeted and threatened in 2022.
Residents are encouraged to use their “ingenuity and imagination” to create names by Jan. 6, 2023. The city is going to pick the top six names and each one will represent a plow in Chicago’s six snow districts.
Sigcho Lopez became alderman in 2019. Shootings in his ward are up 191% during his term — their highest level since at least 2010, which is as far back as the city’s online database goes.
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