Anyone convicted of a felony, bribery, perjury or other infamous crime as an elected official is now ineligible to hold any public office. Lawmakers could run for public office again if their conviction is reversed, they are pardoned or have their rights restored by the governor.
Even though Illinois gas prices are down from a month ago, they’re still the highest in the Midwest and 11th-highest nationwide, according to AAA.
The storms Sept. 17 brought more than 6 inches of rainfall, causing severe flooding in several south suburbs, including Calumet city, Dolton and Harvey. Gov. JB Pritzker had issued a state disaster proclamation last month, as did Cook County.
Just before 2 p.m. near the Howard CTA station, 25-year-old Kmari Robinson walked up to a cop and admitted he shot Kenneth Sandy. He was charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. Prosecutors asked Judge Kelly McCarthy to keep Robinson in jail during a detention hearing over the weekend, noting that Robinson was convicted of aggravated battery and a hate crime in 2016, so he’s not allowed to possess a gun. McCarthy nixed that idea and released Robinson on an ankle monitor.
“When businesses are not able to open because of regulations, it hurts the businesses chances of being successful,” Ford said. “That’s the danger.”
Costs to date include relocating about 162 migrants – who range in age from 3 years old to 60 – between Nov. 7 and Nov. 10, primarily to the Carleton Hotel and the West Cook YMCA. With current spending rates, which are approximately $300,000 per month, the existing fund — including Supporting Municipalities for Asylum Seeker Services grant dollars and federal pandemic-related American Rescue Plan Act money — would be exhausted by mid-December, the memo stated.
Illinois has been trying to position itself as a hub for new technologies, from quantum computing to life sciences and electric vehicle manufacturing. After winning $14 billion in infrastructure funds, $1 billion to build a Midwest hydrogen hub, and bidding to host the $11 billion National Semiconductor Technology Center, the governor is looking for more. The state is now seeking $1 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency for clean energy projects, according to the group leading the bid.
So it was somewhat reassuring to see Gov. J.B. Pritzker step in with promises of significant aid to prop up Mayor Brandon Johnson’s haphazard handling of this human tide.
The tents, chairs, boxes, tarps, crates, and, yes, the migrants that filled the sidewalk in front of the Near North District police station vanished over the weekend. A source familiar with the development said the 18th District camp was “decompressed” Saturday, just a couple of days after one of its residents was stabbed and critically injured. “Decompressed” is lingo for “moved elsewhere.”
Kirk Dillard, of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) Board of Directors: “These transformative investments could be just the start an equity-focused investment strategy, if state and federal legislators deliver high levels of capital funding for the long term. Just to bring the system’s infrastructure fully up to date, the region needs an investment of $2 to $3 billion per year, while a greater investment is needed to innovate, improve and expand service.”
The City of Chicago is jumping into a legal battle with its hand out as the CTA wrangles in court with a network of real estate companies over eight properties. The CTA needs the land as part of its extension of the Red Line but they can’t agree on the price.
Emanuel was not at the cottage at the time. Local police confirmed there was no other damage to the property and no sign of breaking or entering.
The Ordinance applies to any person who employs at least one employee. However, certain substantive obligations differ depending on whether an employer is a “Small Employer” (50 or fewer employees), “Medium Employer” (51-100 employees), or an employer who is neither based on the size of its workforce.
Said Ted Williams III, “He’s an educator. He’s a member of the faith community. Those groups are very connected to the African-American community. But African Americans feel very threatened by this migrant issue and are upset that he has announced that [the city] is opening 10 new migrant shelters. They’re opening a shelter downtown, and they found the funding for that. There are people in the African-American community who say, ‘Wait a second, how can you find the money for this right now, and we have these 68,000 homeless people in Chicago right now?'”
Frerichs’ unbridled dominion over taxpayer money has gone on far too long, and now borders on megalomania. It’s up to the General Assembly and governor to impose oversight and transparency.
The $200 billion Illinois’ public and private sectors got in federal covid bailouts pulled Illinois back from its decades-long, self-inflicted financial decline. But what the bailouts didn’t do is make a significant dent in the state’s core problems, most notably pensions.
“I don’t know where it’s going, with Donald Trump, what I can tell you is, the things that he talks about, are frightening to those of us who know the history of Europe in the 1930s and 40s,” Pritzker said in a nationally televised interview. “And I’m deeply concerned about his predilection for revenge.”
When Mayor Brandon Johnson introduced his 2024 budget, he noted the city had for too long balanced such spending plans on the backs of working people and vowed to end the practice. And yet, Johnson’s 2024 financial package counts on $46 million more in fines and fees than this year, a 15% increase. In all, the mayor expects to bring in $348 million from things like parking tickets, red-light and speed enforcement fines, moving violations, booting fees, sanitation code violations and housing court fines.
Last weekend, at least 15 people were shot, five fatally, in weekend gun violence across Chicago, police said.
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