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The statewide program, “Illinois Shine.” received more demand than expected since the Illinois Power Agency that oversees the program started accepting applications in June. But after reaching capacity last month, buyers are now paying interest on loans they initially took out to get the panels.
About 400 workers are employed at that site. The company announced it is shutting its doors in Effingham because of the United Auto Workers strike in Kentucky.
“We need to go assess the situation,” he said. “This is serious. And I’ve been saying it. I mean this ain’t the first time you’ve heard me say how serious this dynamic is.”
“The move to effectively shut down the park demonstrates Mayor Brandon Johnson’s disregard and insincerity. Mayor Johnson touts the importance of having viable outlets for our youth, families, and community, but he’s willing to take away a viable park sanctuary which contributes to our children quality of life and convert the fieldhouse into a migrant shelter,” said Donald Glover, President of the Amundsen Park Advisory Council.
“Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,” the Will County Sheriff’s Department said.
Even after hourly rates appeared to have been reduced from the December invoices, the lowest paid staff rates were $50 an hour, and the most expensive was $156 per hour before overtime. That means – if you were to extrapolate those costs in a year’s time – Favorite Healthcare Staffing could have potentially charged the city six-figure salaries for some employees working inside the shelters.
“With no firm plans in place and the only concrete advice to incoming migrants being (Gov. JB) Pritzker’s warning that ‘it’s gonna get cold in Chicago and New York very soon,’ cracks among the Democratic base, particularly among key ethnic and racial blocs, have emerged over spending taxpayer dollars and housing for migrants.”
“Asylum seekers are legal in this country, right? We have undocumented immigrants, and then we have documented asylum seekers,” Gov. JB Pritzker said. “We need to manage all of that, and it has been a failure of Republicans and Democrats.”
Less transportation for magnet and gifted families could mean more students enrolling in their neighborhood schools. Bolstering neighborhood schools is a priority for Mayor Brandon Johnson.
An Illinois state appeals court has ruled that Illinoisans can be fired from their jobs for refusing to get a Covid vaccine, because a state right of conscience law that otherwise protects people for refusing to participate in morally objectionable medical procedures doesn’t apply to anything related to Covid after Illinois Democrats specifically rewrote the law to ensure its protections didn’t apply to Covid vaccine mandates.
The report said disciplinary proceedings have started against a Streets and Sanitation Department laborer who falsified tax records and reported fake business income for a hair salon, according to inspector general Deborah Witzburg. “This is the first public reporting out of a large-scale, ongoing effort. There are members of the police department included on the list that we are looking at.”
The second-term Democratic governor and multi-billionaire has been lavished with hundreds of gifts from around the world, ranging from a $950 bottle of Japanese whiskey to 35 cents: a quarter and dime, to be exact. The state’s 25-year-old Gift Ban Act prohibits public employees from accepting presents, with broad exceptions.
In one case, prosecutors said 26-year-old Victor Visinaiz carjacked a woman in the 3000 block of West Ogden after they were involved in a traffic crash. In the second second case, Tevin Tucker, is accused of threatening a 57-year-old security guard with a metal baton while stealing a phone charger at a Jewel-Osco; court records show he has faced 38 different criminal cases in Cook County since 2014, primarily misdemeanors.
Armed robbers raided seven liquor stores in about a two-hour spree on Saturday evening, a repeat performance of a similar crime spree on Wednesday evening. Like the earlier incidents, some of the stores’ customers were robbed, too.
“There’s lead service line funding that is the main funding in terms of dollar amounts. We also have funding to address emerging contaminants. And on top of that, there is additional supplemental funding to fund the regular projects that we historically would fund,” said Nidnan Singh, of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
Thousands of people took to the streets Saturday afternoon at a rally in downtown Chicago to show support for the Palestinian people amid a growing humanitarian crisis spurred by war between Israel and Hamas. The demonstration stretched for blocks as it made its way down Michigan Avenue,
There is a humanitarian crisis developing in Chicago. As temperatures drop into the 40s, thousands of migrants have been unable to find room indoors to sleep and are forced to camp outside — sometimes with no tents and no blankets. Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson had been promising “winterized” tents to shelter the thousands of migrants who are sleeping in police stations and makeshift shelters around the city. So far, nothing. And time is running out.
Wind and rain have descended on Chicago at the same time as unprecedented numbers of migrants from the southern border. But now there is less space than ever and city officials have no concrete plan moving forward on the prospect of winterized base camps, raising alarm from experts about a looming humanitarian disaster.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has so many fans and friends that he receives a $30 gift at the rate of one every three days, but because of his job he accepts none of them, and rarely even sees them. The state’s 25-year-old Gift Ban Act prohibits public employees such as Pritzker from accepting presents, with broad exceptions. Therefore, the high-priced hooch delivered compliments of the Japanese embassy and three bottles of tequila valued at $450 have remained untapped.
Al Hunt: It’s time for “Big Gretch,” “California Cool,” the “New Jersey guy,” Illinois’ “big man” or “Carolina Blue” to jump in the pool. These are code names for Democratic governors: Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Gavin Newsom of California, New Jersey’s Phil Murphy, Illinois’ J.B. Pritzker and Roy Cooper of North Carolina.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is counting on tourists and residents spending more to have fun, take ride shares and stay in hotels to help plug a half-billion-dollar deficit in next year’s budget.
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