Residents who have been protesting the temperature-controlled encampment at the former Jewel parking lot say crews have been on-site at all hours of the day and night preparing the land.
“The Illinois House adjourned early Thursday, Nov. 9, so the Democrats could speed up I-55 to attend a political fundraiser in Chicago for President Joe Biden, leaving behind the hopes and dreams of thousands of parents and children, who thought, just maybe, they could pull off a miracle in Springfield and get their representatives to listen to them, not the teachers unions that funnel millions of dollars into their re-election campaigns. “
“Without sales revenues, the downtown business district will wither away. It happened years ago in Detroit. It is happening now in Chicago. People won’t spend money if they’re not safe.”
They discuss his advocacy for abortion rights, immigration, the 2024 presidential race, the latest on the Israel-Hamas war and more.
“Bally’s has already indicated that they’re not in a hurry to start construction,” Ald. Brian Hopkins said. “They don’t have the money to do it. They were counting on the cash flow from the Medinah Temple site to fund the construction project, and right now, they don’t have it. The signs are on the wall that they’re going to stay (at Medinah) longer. The real risk now is that they turn [Medinah Temple] into a permanent temporary site where it just keeps getting renewed over and over again,”
The protest began at 1 p.m. at Buckingham Fountain before thousands of demonstrators spilled out to the streets. It was the 10th time since the war began overseas that Palestinian supporters have gathered to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, according to organizers.
Making the trip were Angela Morrey, director of marketing & business attraction for the Economic Alliance of Kankakee County; Ryan Marion, code enforcement officer for the village of Manteno; Manteno Fire Chief Scott O’Brien; and Clay Sterling, professor in the renewable energy program at Kankakee Community College. “We tried to go there to find something negative,” Marion said. “And the only thing that we found is if the employees that are working there now, go away. … But I don’t see that happening.”
Soybean yields in Central Illinois averaged from 70 to 80 and 90 bushels per acre, with some farmers reporting 100 bushels per acre. So “pretty darned good” in the end, after a challenging start.
Christopher Rufo: “Here’s an example of how this combination of well-funded activism and political influence works in practice: Pritzker-funded activists at Lurie Children’s Hospital (the largest children’s hospital in Chicago) provide local schools with training, materials, and personnel who promote gender transitions for children, using the hospital’s reputation to give their ideology a scientific veneer. And the more one investigates, the worse it gets. Children are exposed, for instance, not only to trans ideology, but to concepts such as ‘kink’ (unusual tastes in sexual behavior), ‘BDSM’ (bondage, domination, submission, and masochism), binders to flatten breasts, and prosthetic penises.”
“They try to convince us you can turn life insurance into an investment instead of just insurance, but in the end, you get both subpar insurance and subpar investments.” The premiums are expensive, and the cost of whole life insurance tends to be much higher than term life insurance .So why would the CTU send out an email that would only benefit 1 percent of its members? Contributions to CTU’s PAC, apparently.
The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced today that the unemployment rate increased +0.2 percentage point to 4.6 percent, while nonfarm payrolls decreased -15,000 in October, based on preliminary data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and released by IDES.
The United Auto Workers, for example, launched a six-week strike against the country’s top three automakers this fall, in part because labor leaders worried that the industry’s transition to electric vehicles would harm assembly line workers. That put Democratic governors who backed the move to EVs in a tough spot. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Andy Beshear of Kentucky and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan all staked
Many of the desks at Chicago Academy High School sat empty during the last period of classes Thursday, as about 250 students — half of the student body — walked out to demand a cease-fire in solidarity with the children of Gaza. Palestinian American pupils organized the Chicago Public Schools-sanctioned walkout, leading chants as students marched around the predominantly Latinx school in Dunning on the Northwest Side before returning for the last 30 minutes of classes.
Mailee Smith, Illinois Policy Institute: “Teachers unions may have won this political battle, but we cannot allow them to win a war in which our children’s educations are the casualties.”
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