There are some precise ingredients imposed by the legislature. Mayfield said they include a rubric to evaluate the reading curriculum in a school or district, a template for schools to follow and a teacher training module.
Year-to-date, robbery numbers on the CTA are way down – from 350 to 254 robberies. Homicides have been cut in half – from 4 to 2. Criminal sexual assaults dropped slightly – from 17 to 15 – but aggravated assaults and aggravated batteries both have gone up, if only slightly – from 76 aggravated assaults at this point last year to 78 this year; and 132 aggravated batteries at this point last year to 135 this year.
Ted Dabrowski, of Wirepoints, said this idea could have a negative impact on the city. “We have to remember our commercial buildings, and I think that’s where the danger really is. Our commercial buildings, in many cases, are half empty, and so we are missing the tax base, and we are running the risk of pushing these properties into even worse positions. I think Johnson is finding out the promises he would like to make will be really difficult to keep.”
“The CTU’s political arm, United Working Families, has a door-knocking crew that rivals any ward committeeman’s patronage army in numbers and enthusiasm. Those volunteers helped (Mayor Brandon) Johnson defeat an opponent who outspent him, 2-1. That fit in with Old Man Daley’s defense of the Machine as a vehicle for defeating money with foot soldiers: ‘The rich guys can get elected on their money, but somebody like me, an ordinary person, needs the party.'”
Among the top ten states which have seen the largest rent increases of the year are Iowa (#8) at 2.6%, Indiana (#7) at 2.8%, Wisconsin (#5) at 3.2%, and Illinois (#4) at 3.4%. The #1 spot goes to North Dakota which has seen a 7.0% average increase in rent so far this year
“They’re having difficulty managing the … free health care for undocumented immigrants. That strains the rest of the Medicaid budget. So that’s gonna be part of it,” Senate Minority Leader John Curran said. “The [American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees] contract is going to be part of it, so it’s not surprising.”
“Why do teachers unions despise charters? Because they are independent public schools free of certain state and collective bargaining mandates that would limit their ability to design and operate a school that prioritizes children…Charter schools offer families a public-school alternative to their often underperforming and unsafe neighborhood public school.”
The new plan is emerging after more than a year since the last sale of a downtown Chicago office tower. “The proposed three-tiered transfer tax plan will hurt the city’s commercial office industry at a historically vulnerable time,” said Farzin Parang, of BOMA/Chicago, a trade association for 240 commercial buildings in Chicago. “As downtown office building values plummet due to a sluggish return to office, the livelihood of tens of thousands of Chicagoans is at risk. In addition, homeowners across the city can expect to shoulder more of the city’s property tax burden. Some projections estimate that a $250,000 home
The Ogden and Town Hall police districts had originally been emptied due to allegations of sexual misconduct. The city said a rising number of immigrants arriving has forced them to reuse the stations.
“(The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services) has a lousy reputation, and deservedly so. It’s an unfortunate example of a massive dysfunctional bureaucracy assigned an impossible job. But that doesn’t mean agency administrators can’t effectively oversee how the money is spent. Remember, every agency dollar that goes to fraudsters — either inside or outside the agency — is one fewer dollar available to help those in need.”
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois opposed the law and representatives testified against it during hearings held in Springfield. “The law is hopelessly over-broad,” said Mark Glennon, executive editor of Wirepoints, a Wilmette-based economic and government research-commentary nonprofit. “It goes far beyond the malicious conduct normally associated with doxing and past clear constitutional limits on what speech the government can muzzle.”
“Asked how he could be confident of stopping a veto override, he said many legislators didn’t know that the bill had been changed. ‘In the last week, things go very quickly,’ (Gov. JB) Pritzker said about the end of spring legislative sessions. ‘It isn’t known to every legislator that an amendment actually made a major change, not just a minor change.'”
The complaint asserts the carmaker placed a heavy burden on Chicago’s police and other city services, while also taking a toll on low- and middle-income city residents who tend to own the entry level Kia and Hyundai models susceptible to the theft hack. Further, the complaint blames Kia and Hyundai for also helping to fuel the rise of crime in Chicago more generally. The complaint asserts stolen Hyundais were used in “more than a dozen murders” from October 2022 to January 2023.
A spokesman for Gov. JB Pritzker said the second-term governor “has been clear about the need to root out corruption and instill transparency and honesty at every level of state government. The verdict advances the cause of cleaning up state government and sends a message that this type of behavior will not be tolerated in Illinois. This administration demands a high level of integrity in public service and will accept nothing less.”
CPS doesn’t have enough drivers to bus any general education students to selective enrollment and magnet schools. Those programs are often the most sought-out alternatives for families uninterested in their neighborhood school. “Transportation was promised to our children when they were offered spots at these schools,” one parent told the Board of Education. “Your offered CTA bus passes are not a solution for elementary school kids.”
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