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The course would cover banking, bill payment, investing, managing credit, paying for college, taxes, and more. The bill would affect the freshman class of the 2024-25 school year.
“Worthy though the topics of most resolutions might be, there’s limited public value in allowing them to take up more than a third of the City Council’s legislative agenda. Alderpersons have real and pressing policy challenges to address, and they draw substantial salaries to do so. “
“…I would love nothing more than to return to Chicago at some point, at least on a part-time basis each year. But I don’t see it happening in my lifetime without radical change that addresses the three reasons we left, linked by a commonality of city, county and state government waste, malfeasance and apathy.”
Prosecutors say a Chicago man burglarized a work crew’s van while wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet for two pending burglary cases. And, incredibly, the arrest occurred about two hours after he left the police station on a recognizance bond after a concealed carry holder held him at gunpoint for allegedly breaking into yet another car.
The potential sale is a sign that yet more pain is on the way for suburban office markets. “There is a lack of demand, particularly with regard to larger users, which are getting more efficient in how they use their office spaces,” said Jonathon Connor, senior vice president with Colliers International. “This could be a vacancy that sits for a while.”
In a brief filed Monday, the office of Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul stated that the “plaintiffs’ response brief identifies no persuasive reason to affirm the circuit court’s sweeping decision striking down the pretrial release provisions.”
The Illinois National Guard couldn’t immediately say how many of their troops were impacted by the mandate.
Out-of-state sales could drop even more now that Missouri has legalized recreational cannabis, charging the lowest excise tax in the nation. Billboards near the state line now encourage Illinoisans to save by buying their weed in Missouri.
The Illinois Supreme Court should reject a “grab-bag of constitutional theories” put forward by more than 60 prosecutors across the state who are challenging a measure that would eliminate cash bail, the attorney general’s office argued in a final appeal brief filed Monday.
State Sen. Andrew Chesney, the bill’s co-sponsor, says that their goal with this bill is to have those from a different perspective understand what they are trying to regulate.
Ted joined Newsmax to discuss the state of the Chicago mayoral election. Ted said the race was almost sure to go to a runoff but that the real issue was whether Chicagoans would turn out to show their dissatisfaction over the city leaderships’ failure to control crime.
Happy Foods owner Barbara Eastman addresses the cost and liability of keeping an armed guard in her store during business hours, as has been proposed.
Radio host Ray Stevens noted the majority of the city’s leaders are people of color, with a bounty of African-American and Latino candidates populating the ballot. “I don’t think it comes down to race. There are people living in these communities that just want to be safe.”
Still, there are questions about how receptive Chicago Police Department leadership will be to the input from citizens. Craig Futterman, of the University of Chicago, said police leadership has so far treated the commission as if it has no power to establish policies as the interim commission has pushed back on the Police Department’s relaunch of a “gang database” and against the department’s delayed response times to 911 calls.
The Coalition to Stop CPKC claims a merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern rail companies would hurt communities between Chicago and Elgin, citing an increased risk of derailments, like the one spilling toxic chemicals in Ohio, grid-locked traffic and more noise pollution.
Senator Sue Resin: “Thanks to our state’s nuclear energy history, we are poised to take immediate advantage once our own archaic moratorium ends. However, if we continue to sit back and allow the moratorium to continue, we risk losing our competitive edge in the nuclear energy industry, especially as newer and safer nuclear energy technology rapidly emerges.”
Misuzu Schexnider, of the University of Chicago’s Inclusive Economy Lab, said the “shocking statistic” is something they plan to keep an eye on throughout the duration of the pilot. “It really illustrates the need that exists in the community, particularly the need for mental health support and resources, and that people are really hurting and not able to thrive right now.”
The state’s Line of Duty Compensation Act provides benefits to the families of police officers, firefighters, paramedics, military members, and other first responders killed in the line of duty. But in some years, funding for those benefits can run out before the end of the fiscal year, forcing families to sometimes wait months for state lawmakers to approve supplemental funding.
It’s a battle state Sen. Steve McClure has been fighting for some time now, having filed Senate Bill 1405 to that end several times over the past few years. The so-called “Lindsey’s Law” legislation would pave the way for law enforcement to charge intoxicated drivers with a Class 2 felony if they kill someone and cause great bodily harm, permanent disability or disfigurement of others.
The poll of 800 voters highlights that a majority of voters would prefer a system where students are able to attend a school they feel is “right for their learning needs,” even if it means venturing outside the Chicago Public School system.
As Election Day nears, some signs are emerging about who’s voting, what motivates them and how that will impact the candidates. Compatible with that is research done by demographer Frank Calabrese on where that vote is coming from, relative to the 2019 February mayoral vote.
How sadly ironic that White Castle became the latest victim of the Illinois General Assembly’s malfeasance. Its stores are modeled after the Chicago Water Tower, which survived the Chicago Fire and stands as a monument to the spirit of tenacity and resilience that once prevailed to rebuild the city.
Ted joined WVON’s Matt McGill and Perri Small to talk about Gov. Pritzker’s latest dishonest budget, why the governor’s positive portrayal of Illinois ignores the real suffering of Chicagoans and minorities, the ideological fight between Gov. Pritzker and Gov. DeSantis over sex ed and trans issues, the fact that only 3 in 10 Illinois students can read at grade level, and more.
“Given the fact that trial lawyers are a key constituency of and generous donors to supermajority Democrats in Springfield, the business community can’t expect much positivity from Springfield. It’s a virtual certainty trial lawyers don’t want to destroy targeted businesses. But it’s equally likely they wish to keep them healthy enough to extract huge liability payments from them. Either way, it’s a wretched situation, but par for the course in Illinois.”
By October, Pritzker apparently was confident enough he’d be victorious that he didn’t give JB for Governor any more cash. Instead, he contributed to other campaigns and groups, including state-level Democratic groups in California, Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico, South Dakota and Tennessee.
Last weekend, at least 11 people were shot, three fatally, in gun violence across the city, police said.
The developer was asking for the city to acquire 400 S. La Salle by eminent domain, a risk for the public treasury. The Cook County assessor puts its market value at $58.6 million; insiders believe it will sell for much less, perhaps to somebody who would build a data center
The same survey found the vast majority of likely Black voters support more funding for youth programs, more affordable housing and increased funding for all public schools.
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