The new entertainment unit comes after a newly formed neighborhood group in Fulton Market announced plans to hire private security for the area. A section of Division Street and other parts of Ukrainian Village experienced high-profile shootings and public safety issues this winter.
At the midway mark for 2023, ISP reports Chicago area expressway shootings are down 23% compared to this time last year. The number of non-fatal injury expressway shootings in the Chicago area is down 50% compared to this time in 2022. Victims and witnesses increasingly are reporting road rage was involved in expressway shootings.
The road runs 255 miles from the Mississippi River to the Indiana border. The route eventually narrows from an undivided four-lane highway to a two-lane road, leaving cars being very close to each other while passing at high speeds. People are scared to take the route since improvements and maintenance has fallen behind.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Diane MacArthur argued that Timothy Mapes was once part of a tight inner-circle involving Mike Madigan and fellow Springfield insider Michael McClain. MacArthur also said Mapes once said of Madigan, “I always try to protect him. I mean, that’s my goal. … We’ll protect the boss and so will you. That’s what you gotta remember.”
Chicago Housing Authority CEO Tracy Scott says because most of the CHA’s funds come from federal sources, the regulations specify they cannot be used for people who don’t qualify for such money. But Scott said the CHA has been indirectly helping by providing money to other agencies and organizations that help the homeless.
Although Chicago will still see an increase in state education funding, a drop in the percentage of students considered low-income and a bump in property wealth in the city means the district is not getting the largest share of the new money.
There were 103 overdose deaths attributable to fentanyl in Cook County in 2015. That number shot up to 1,533 in 2020 and a record 1,825 in 2022, according to statistics from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. That accounts for more than 90% of all opioid-related deaths in the county.
Some of the most impacted subjects are those requiring extra education, like science, math, special education and bilingual classrooms.
The industries hit the hardest in Illinois during June were the professional and business services sector, which lost 5,400 jobs. The manufacturing industry lost 2,100 jobs, and the trade, transportation, and utilities sector lost 2,000 jobs in the month.
“The discount price charge participants will allow them to pay only what the state needs to be whole,” state Rep. Jenn Ladisch Douglass said. “It costs the state nothing to engage in this program.”
The cow was sculpted by artist Sarah Pratt and inspired by dairy farmer Lorilee Schultz, who is depicted harvesting milk from one of her cows. The theme of this year’s State Fair is “Harvest the Fun.” This year’s display also features a second, smaller sculpture in a separate display case depicting Schultz’s daughter, Lucy, petting a calf.
“Only 180 Chicago public schools used their space efficiently in the 2022-2023 school year while 290 schools were underutilized and 25 schools were overcrowded…Schools and students in the district are suffering, but the Chicago Teachers Union doesn’t want anything to change.”
“‘At nearly every correctional facility, (the Illinois Department of Corrections’) operational mission as well as safety and security are negatively impacted by its worsening conditions,’ states the report prepared by CGL Companies…Given their past practices, it seems clear that (Gov. JB) Pritzker and legislators will use this report as further support for approving inmate releases.”
Wednesday’s spree involved one or two carloads of robbers who jumped out to mug people on the street, often while victims stood outside bars and other late-night businesses. The same scenario has played out hundreds of times in recent months and weeks as Chicago police have failed to get a handle on the robbery surge.
Chris Deng, a 2023 Walter Payton College Prep graduate, studied internet speeds at high schools on the West Side, North Side and central city. Every school studied met a federal short-term goal to provide speeds of 100 kilobits per second for every person at the school. But only 13 percent of tests run at the schools met the federal long-term benchmark, which is 1 megabit per second for every person in the school. None of the tests met a national tech directors association’s goal for large districts like Chicago Public Schools, which is 1.4 megabits per second per person.
Jim Dey: “While the law’s challengers presented ample testimony to support their position, (Illinois Attorney General Kwame) Raoul, an ambitious Chicago politician who aspires to move up the political ladder, presented none. He justified passage by asserting that it is necessary to prevent abortion opponents from making false statements — for example, comparing the medical risks of having an abortion to giving birth. But the judge noted statements Raoul considers punishable often are matters of opinion.”
As amended, the SAFE-T Act states that a ticket must first be issued unless an officer believes a suspect is a threat to the community or a person to which an arrest can be made after the issuance of a citation. Police can also make an arrest if the suspect is believed to have a medical or mental health issue causing safety concerns.
At 45.4 cents per gallon, Illinois motorists can expect to pay $222 a year in state gas taxes alone based on American Petroleum Institute gas usage estimates.
Professor Terrell Morton is an “Identity and Justice in STEM Education” scholar who “draws from critical race theory, phenomenology, and human development to ascertain Black students’ consciousness and how it manifests in their various embodiments and actions that facilitate their STEM postsecondary engagements,” according to his faculty bio.
While Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s most recent budget projected a surplus, the plaintiffs in the case argue that the figures were achieved on the backs of the transportation funds, which they say are being used for projects at the Cook County Jail, Juvenile Detention Center, and in the Social Services Department. Cook County officials argued that they had the right to “pay for expenses related to enforcing vehicular laws and road safety beyond filling potholes.”
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