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The Faculty of Academy of Cultural Competence and Equity (FACCE), outlined learning objectives, which include the ability to understand the “historical and societal context of issues related to social injustice, inequity, and oppression.”
DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick believes the new law violates Second Amendment rights and his office will not arrest those who do not register their weapons, nor will it arrest or house anyone charged solely with not complying with the act. The DuPage County board voted in October to support state and federal legislation banning the sale of high-powered weapons and high-capacity magazines.
State Superintendent Carmen Ayala’s budget proposal calls for a $350 million boost for K-12 schools, or about 4%, plus a $60 million increase to early childhood education. The rest of the requested increase relates to transportation, special education, and free meals. But some education advocates say a $550 million increase in K-12 funding is needed to fully fund all districts under the state’s evidence-based funding formula.
In a phone interview, Sen. Rob Martwick, who represents portions of Chicago’s Northwest Side and adjacent suburbs, said he still believes the state, and particularly middle-class families, need the income and lower property taxes, respectively, that a graduated income tax would bring, even though voters in 2020 rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to do that by about a 10-point margin.
Gov. JB Pritzker has denied speculation that he plans to run for president in 2024 and said President Joe Biden had done a good job, but still says there are things that need to get done on a federal
As of Jan. 1, 2023, individuals in 38 health care professions in Illinois are now required to take racial bias training. The Illinois Administrative Code states that implicit bias occurs automatically and unintentionally, but affects behaviors, judgements and decisions.
The first lawsuit was filed in Crawford County, followed quickly by a lawsuit filed in Effingham County. Attorney Tom DeVore, the former Republican candidate for Illinois Attorney General, has also asked the court to issue an order barring the state from enforcing the law while the latter lawsuit is pending. A hearing on that restraining order request is scheduled for Jan. 18.
Illinois state lawmakers, with the OK of Gov. JB Pritzker, have boosted their pay 25% since 2018, but their constituents have seen incomes grow far slower. The median household’s income has grown 11%. The average worker’s salary has grown 18%.
State Rep. Blaine Wilhour told Tucker Carlson, “I think that we are in danger of losing our country if we don’t stand up, if we don’t wake up… I didn’t leave the farm to go to the General Assembly to stand by and watch somebody like J.B. Pritzker trash our Constitution. He trashed it during COVID with his illegal lockdowns. He trashed it with his so-called SAFE-T act, letting violent criminals out on the street, and now he’s coming after our guns. We won’t comply.”
Through the first nine days of 2023, the most recent data available, Chicago police recorded 70 carjackings, up from 53 during the same days last year and 55 during the opening days of 2021, which ended as the worst single month for carjackings in the city since at least 2001.
One hundred and seventeen thousand people in Illinois, representing 9,000 participating employers, are saving money for their retirement through Illinois Secure Choice.
State Superintendent Carmen Ayala was one of the key players guiding Illinois’ 852 school districts during the pandemic. Now, she is retiring after 40 years in education, and just as schools are starting their recovery from the fallout of COVID-19.
In an admittedly “wholly unscientific survey” of regular commuters, slightly under half of riders (45%) who took the survey said they felt “somewhat unsafe” or “very unsafe” riding a bus or train, while a similar percentage (47%) said they felt “fairly safe.” Only seven percent of respondents said they felt “very safe” riding a bus or train in the past 30 days.
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The multi-year rate increase request is part of the state’s Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, a clean energy bill requiring Illinois utilities to get 40% of their power from renewable sources by 2030. If approved by state regulators, ComEd customers will pay an average of $17 per month more for delivery charges by 2027, the utility said.
Other Illinois gas providers are also asking for the state to approve increases.
The LaSalle Street improvement fund is slightly different than other Small Business Improvement Funds across the city. The maximum grant for the LaSalle Street improvement fund is higher than in other programs and would reimburse 90 percent of all expenses. Grants in other neighborhoods are capped at $150,000 per applicant and reimbursements vary between 30-90 percent.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates Illinois soybean farmers raised 677.25 million bushels on 10.75 million harvested acres with an average yield of 63 bushels per acre.
Some of his goals his transition team highlighted include expanding library access, release public education campaigns about fraud prevention, improving marketing for the organ donation program, and shorten wait times at Secretary of State facilities.
The boy, whose name has not been released because he is a juvenile, was charged Monday with eight felony counts of armed robbery stemming from separate incidents between last November and December.
As mayor, Emanuel initiated the Safe Passage Program to protect students to and from school. He’s amazed how young Japanese children are able to take public transportation alone. “A parent can kiss a kid goodbye,” he explained. “Five, six years old. Six, seven blocks. Get on a train, not a worry in the world. It’s magical.”
Indiana University’s Student Health Center, the University Health Services for University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Illinois’ McKinley Center all provide hormonal injections for students and other services they claim are “gender-affirming care” without parental notification and often with great medical risk.
“The fact is, a township government is the closest a person can get to a true participative government, one which represents the least number of people and can, thereby, be more responsive to an individual’s needs than can a larger government plagued by bureaucracies.”
Matt Paprocki, of the Illinois Policy Institute: “Union leaders’ prominent involvement in the race reflects their priorities, none of which include Chicago Public Schools students. While CTU teachers provide an invaluable service to the city and society, the union’s leadership uses its position to prioritize a political agenda over students’ needs, much to students’ detriment.”
A Minnesota property tax foreclosure case to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court may hit Illinois harder than any other state.
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