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Theories and rumors and unconfirmed reports have circulated on social media, but police and the Sox have released virtually nothing about the shooting that wounded two women last Friday night. At least two shots were fired, but the police report does not explain how a bullet found its way into the hoodie of a third fan.
The survey conducted by Ald. Brendan Reilly, one of the most outspoken critics of the street race, found that about 54% of respondents do not support future NASCAR races in the city. Eight percent were indifferent.
“The first option would be to abolish the estate tax. We pay taxes our whole life while we are living, and the first thing that happens when you die is they want to tax your cold, dead body,” state Rep. Chris Miller said. “There have been very little pro-business and pro-family legislation to make life better for working-class citizens in Illinois. There is a reason why Ronald Reagan made the comment that the most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I am from the government and I am here to help you.'”
A summary judgment hearing is scheduled Oct. 11 in front of Judge Stephen McGlynn, the same judge that ruled a preliminary injunction against the gun ban on Second Amendment grounds in April. That injunction lasted six days before the appeals court consolidated cases with Northern District cases and issued a stay.
“The best way for us to manage through this lengthy crisis is to tap into the extraordinary value that immigrants bring to our workforce,” Gov. JB Pritzker said. “We have the jobs. We have the people. We just need authorization from Washington.”
She previously served as the Director of Membership and Strategic Alliances for the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems. Early also has experience as Executive Director of the National Public Pension Coalition and as Director of Legislative and Political Affairs for the Chicago Federation of Labor.
Migrants have been coming to Chicago for almost a year, and the City of Chicago has spent $110 to care for them so far. Ald. Andre Vasquez, the Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, said the city finally sent him some detailed numbers this week. One of the biggest questions is about the most significant expenditure: more than $55 million spent on staffing alone.
“National Statuary Hall is a collection of marble men and women who stand silently around the first floor of the United States Capitol. Established in 1864, it is filled with figures whose graven images have endured longer than their names… There are a few famous faces in the collection — Ronald Reagan, Sacagawea, Brigham Young — but for every household name, there’s a Frances Willard and a James Shields, not stopping any tourists for selfies.”
“While the causes of crime are complex, there is widespread agreement – from the FBI director to former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot – that young people being out of school plays an important role…No single act was more responsible for keeping students out of school than the closing of Chicago Public Schools campuses for 17 months beginning in 2020.”
“Of the city’s 50-person city council, all but three are Democrats, and now 20 of them are on board with deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes…This is not a novel concept Chicago is exploring. It is a normal thing that most people expected cities to do before the Democrats running those cities decided to use immigration as a chance to pretend they are morally superior to everyone else. But those cities are now struggling when being forced to uphold their sanctuary promises…”
“There’s a strange and terribly threatening trend in American criminal justice, the election of local prosecutors—mostly in blue cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York–who are more solicitous of criminals than their victims.”
Raising the threshold from $4 million to $12 million would match the federal limit.
Other firefighters smashed a window to reach the two, a battalion chief and a lieutenant. They were not injured, and the man was arrested. Two knives and a loaded gun were recovered, police said. The man was convicted nearly 20 years ago of murdering a rap producer in Austin, according to police.
Due to the anticipated volume of investigations and hearings on pretrial detention starting September 18 and the current limited resources of circuit courts, state’s attorneys, public defenders, and other justice partners, statewide compliance with the SAFE-T Act will only be possible with the use of two-way audio-visual communication systems, Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis announced.
Behind the lower-than-expected numbers is the Prisoner Review Board, a state body appointed by Pritzker and confirmed by the Illinois Senate with final say on medical release requests. As of mid-August, the board had denied nearly two-thirds of medical release requests from dying and disabled prisoners who met the medical criteria to get out of prison under the Coleman Act.
Illinois lost population for the 9th consecutive year, which is 2nd in the nation behind West Virginia. (They’ve been losing people for 10 years.)
Engineers have spent nearly 50 years and billions of dollars building huge tunnels and reservoirs to protect this city from flooding.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about why Illinois’ progressive policies harm black residents across jobs, incomes, poverty, education – it’s all a disaster. They also discuss Mayor Johnson’s own harmful policies and his inability to accomplish anything within his first 100 days, how Chicago’s sky-high commercial property taxes hurt businesses that want to stay in the city, and more.
Individual towns and cities could decide the statewide ban on rent control no longer applies to them — that is, if legislation proposed in Springfield passes. While statewide efforts to lift the ban move slowly, “it makes a lot of sense to empower local communities to make the decision themselves if they should opt out of the current ban on rent control,” said state Sen. Mike Simmons, whose 7th District covers the lakefront from Rogers Park to Wrigley Field.
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