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New legislation proposed by state Rep. Kam Buckner would lower the minimum voting age to 16 years old for state and local elections. State Rep. Kevin Schmidt has proposed a bill that would impose child support obligations on drivers who kill parents while driving under the influence.
Favorite Healthcare Staffing billed for 84 hours of work per week for most of its employees and that those rates ranged from nearly $50 to $156 an hour for regular pay and from $75 to $234 an hour for overtime during the four-week period. As an example, Favorite charged Chicago taxpayers a median payrate of $24,000 for each security guard, for four weeks’ worth of work. That translates to an annual charge, for each security guard, of $312,000
Last November, voters overwhelmingly authorized a 0.025% increase in the preserves’ property tax levy, raising an additional $40 million that officials said they would be spent on maintenance at facilities such as the Chicago Botanic Garden and Brookfield Zoo, land restoration and pension payments. The proposed budget also brings the total head count up to 721 from 633 two years ago.
Qualified people include any individual affiliated with a recognized government or philanthropic organization and who is assisting in the covered area, such as a relief worker.
Over the summer, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules suspended a DCFS rule limiting how long day care assistants can monitor rooms of children under 2 years old.
Illinois State Police have published data showing just over 1,000 firearms owners have filed disclosure affidavits for a total of 3,200 items. Without detail, just 17 “accessory disclosures” are noted. There are more than 2.4 million Firearm Owner Identification card holders in Illinois.
Nicor, which serves 2.2 million Illinoisans, estimates that their original request would increase customer bills by about $9.28 per month. Ameren customers’ bills are expected to increase by several dollars per month as well. Peoples Gas claims that, due to the falling price of natural gas, customer bills will remain at similar levels to last winter.
The clip captured a group of presumed teenagers punching and kicking a Tesla, which appeared to be trapped in an “out-of-control street takeover,” while police watch nearby.
Reps. Mike Bost, Mary Miller and Darin LaHood have all released statements backing Jordan’s candidacy, with uncertainty remaining over whether he will have enough Republican votes to ascend to the position.
The process, commonly referred to as “redeterminations,” resumed earlier this year after the winding down of COVID-era policies .Of those that lost Medicaid in August, September and October, about 62,179, or 30%, lost coverage because they were no longer eligible for Medicaid based on income requirements. Meanwhile, an additional 142,642, or 69%, were disenrolled because they did not submit required paperwork showing need for the program. Of those that lost coverage, more than 86,000, or 42%, had another source of health care or liability coverage and about 14,300, or about 7%, had Medicare
“A recent Crain’s editorial, ‘A pass-the-popcorn moment for Chicagoans’ (Oct. 2), presents a misguided narrative on my concerns about the film ‘Dumb Money’ and the future of Chicago. Let’s start with the film. My team identified some glaring factual inaccuracies in a trailer promoting ‘Dumb Money’ and raised those with the studio. As I told CNBC a few weeks ago, I haven’t seen the film, but I look forward to watching it. I hope the studio produced a great movie and that it offers important lessons for
“As people have been kind of mentioning almost ad nauseam, it looks like we’d run out of those funds before the year is over. I get that the answer we’re hearing is what we’re hoping that the state or the federal government are going to provide the funding and make up the gap. But hope isn’t a strategy,” Ald. Andre Vasquez said.
Looking at 2022, of the 269,423 crimes reported in Chicago, 67,094 happened to Black women. Everything from theft to murder. That means Black women account for 25% of crime victims while they make up just 16% of the city’s population.
Under the Cook County board’s “Treatment Not Trauma” resolution, up to $1.5 million of the county’s Opioid Settlement Special Purpose Fund would be used to expand addiction treatment, mental health services and provide residents with Narcan. Cook County officials say that improving public health will directly improve public safety.
Only 38% of parents strongly or somewhat approved of the way Gov. JB Pritzker is handling the governor’s office compared to 58% who somewhat or strongly disapproved. Pritzker has said he has no intention of running, but some have speculated he would be the candidate on the Democratic side if President Biden chose not to run.
When details of the project were made public six years ago, there was an estimate that the center could be completed by 2021. Federal reviews, which the initial planners did not fully take into account, took years to complete. Obama and former first lady Michelle were at the ceremonial groundbreaking in September 2021. Lori Healey, the foundation’s senior vice president overseeing the construction, says the target date for completion is now
“In a session with journalists Friday to discuss his proposed budget, (Mayor Brandon) Johnson was asked repeatedly about the status of his many plans, from restoring mental health clinics to instituting a permanent guaranteed-income program for lower-income residents. The answer came back repeatedly: That’s the job of the subcommittee on revenue. This panel ‘will be essential to budgets to come,’ he said.”
Jim Dey: “…(G)errymandering in Illinois — Ds wiping out Rs — is permissible if done solely for partisan reasons. On the other hand, a three-judge panel ruled that South Carolina Republicans engaged in unlawful racial gerrymandering when they moved Black Democrats from District 1, represented by a Republican, to another district represented by a Democrat.”
The Chicago-area housing market was the most affordable among the 10 largest metropolitan areas. That meant relatively stronger housing demand and the third-highest annual increase in home values.
There’s a good reason why Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis-Gates is sending her son to a private school instead of the public one in her neighborhood. Roseland is one of the 20 worst communities in Chicago where violence and a dismal education intersect, creating a toxic environment for families.
A drop of 13.5% from the last reported poll.
Mr. Johnson has been eager to turn Chicago into a vanguard of the progressive left. Is apologizing for murdering children supposed to be part of this new political morality?
Twelve states, including California, Illinois, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania, used state and local relief funds to cover recurring costs that were equivalent to a significant 2.5% or more of their fiscal 2022 general fund expenditures. These 12 states, which are home to about 40% of America’s population and total state general fund spending, thus face a moderate to elevated risk of encountering fiscal cliffs if they don’t find money to replace the federal dollars used to shore up their budgets before those funds expire.
The ordinance that Lopez introduced at Monday’s City Council meeting would make it a crime for any parent or legal guardian to “willfully and/or knowingly allow a minor in their charge to engage in a host of offenses wreaking havoc on the quality of life in Chicago neighborhoods.” Fines would range from $1,000 to $5,000, depending on the offense. All of the crimes would require offenders to
Residential eviction filings stand at more than 18,000 through August 2023, with last year’s total filings — which include a small number of commercial evictions — reaching over 29,000, around the same number of filings as in 2019. Chicago’s Right to Counsel Pilot Program would become permanent in 2027 under an ordinance introduced to the City Council by Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Housing.
The draft takes up almost an entire city block and borders residential homes and Metra tracks. While the mayor’s office is taking feedback into consideration, if the city’s water department approves the site, “the city will be moving forward regardless of where I stand on the matter,” Ald. Julia Ramirez’s office said.
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