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Thousands of street vendors in Chicago sell corn, shaved ice, tamales and other items in neighborhoods like Little Village, Pilsen and Albany Park. Vendors say the requirements to licensing are a high bar; they include selling prepackaged items prepared in a commercial kitchen, which goes against the nature of cutting up corn
“Getting what companies need in place helps generate jobs and prosperity. So maybe Illinois is onto something important by investing heavily in transportation.It’s much of the rest of government spending that ought to raise taxpayer eyebrows. Money flows in so many directions few can keep track of it.”
“According to Chief Executive the three worst states to do business are Illinois, New York, and California. Isn’t that great. Three of the states with the highest paid legislators are three of the worst states to do business. And they all are run by Democrats. Can anyone spot the correlation?”
“Some localities, where that gatekeeping isn’t so strong, have found that the relationship between a school’s per pupil expenditure and student performance is either weak or nonexistent. Chicago school districts, for example, spend more than $17,000 per student per year—the figure jumps to almost $30,000 when you include all sources of funding—and only 20 percent of the districts’ students can read at grade level.”
“I do remember how upset and panicky the Chicago Tribune newsroom became when I worked there and wrote columns in support of Miranda Devine and The New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden, his self-incriminating laptop and the national establishment’s effort to silence reporting about it.”
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As a candidate, Johnson was quick to come out against raising residents’ property taxes, a pact he hammered until the very end of the runoff election, even as some doubted its viability. Roughly $1.4 billion of the $1.7 billion the city collected in property taxes in 2023 was used for pension debts, and keeping the city’s tax levy at its current level would force the mayor to
From 2013 to 2022, the public access counselor received an average of about 3,500 requests annually from citizens and media outlets whose efforts to get information were denied by various government agencies throughout the state. The office was also asked to look into an average of more than 360 accusations of Open Meetings Act violations each year. Last year, the office reviewed 3,024 requests for public information that were denied and 342 Open Meetings Act violation complaints.
Signed into law Friday, HB 2531 requires the Illinois Department of Transportation to start the prequalification process for entering public-private agreements established in the South Suburban Airport Act. If private sector proposals come through and the project moves forward, the cargo airport will be built at Bult Field between Monee and Beecher.
“Legislators, according to news reports, reportedly will be making some proposals to consider during the brief fall veto session. That wouldn’t provide much time to examine what would have to be complicated proposals. Indeed, it might open the door to another rush to judgment that leaves too little time and too few people with a full understanding of what’s on the table.”
With $14 billion in new federal funding, the infrastructure law was supposed to jolt efforts to protect the U.S. highway network from a changing climate and curb carbon emissions that are warming the planet. New records show the effort is off to an unsteady start as hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent elsewhere. Illinois spent $39 million elsewhere.
Filed in Cook County this week, the lawsuit lays out a complex series of questionable moves and countermoves regarding the sale and purchase of two buildings in Maywood and alleges Yarbrough was not even legally allowed to make the sales. It also involves Yarbrough’s husband, who used to be the Maywood village president; other Yarbrough family members; her political office; and village of Maywood officials who the county employee accuses of “harassment and obstruction” against him as a landlord.
“Our coalition’s funders have invested more than $140 million in Chicago over seven years to support community-based approaches to violence reduction. Businesses have backed a plan to reduce homicides and gun violence in Chicago over the next decade. And the city, county, state and federal governments are beginning to adopt and fund proven violence prevention efforts at significant levels.”
The victims were at a gathering in the 1500-block of South Keeler Avenue just after 12:50 a.m. when a black Jeep drove up, and multiple unknown suspects were seen getting out of the vehicle with guns, police said. No one was in custody later Sunday morning.
Excited fans have been leaving their Mojo Dojo Casa Houses (the character Ken’s renaming of Barbie’s Dreamhouse) and flocking to Chicago’s theaters to see what has become a summer blockbuster. In its first weekend on July 21-24, Barbie made $162 million in the U.S. and broke Warner Bros.’ opening week-Monday box office record. Businesses in Chicago have also capitalized on to the movie, giving fans a taste — literally — of the Barbie dream.
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