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U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked publicly for a subpoena for the logs during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Nov. 9 and again Nov. 30, but was denied both times by Committee Chair Dick Durbin.
Chicago leaders want Johnson’s order for internal reviews aimed at speeding up development approvals to boost growth in areas that have been historically neglected both by local government and the business community. Meanwhile, a federal inquiry alleges that so-called aldermanic prerogative has been disproportionately used by majority-white wards to prevent or minimize affordable housing proposals, thus exacerbating racial segregation.
Mayor’s office spokesman Cassio Mendoza declared that Chicago, “continues to welcome asylum-seekers but the city cannot safely and efficiently shelter migrants when bus companies, contracted by the State of Texas, flagrantly violate all safety measures that the city has put in place.”
Every weekend for nearly nine months, a McKinley Park resident has felt the walls of her home rumbling from the power of souped-up cars revving their engines nearby. The meetups — known as street takeovers — draw crowds of 100 to 150 people and can last from midnight until 3:30 a.m. Such gatherings were supposed
Then, as the trial shifts into a new phase, former Ald. Ed Burke’s defense team has promised to summon former Ald. Danny Solis to the witness stand — finally giving Burke the chance to confront the former 25th Ward ally who famously turned on him while wearing an FBI wire. They’ve predicted they will spend hours questioning Solis about the recordings he made.
IDPFR will get a new licensing system because of the law, after many advocates called the old system outdated to the point it interfered with several industries. More than a million workers in the state require a license or registration.
Nadia Ismail, administrator and teacher at Aqsa School in Bridgeview, said students gather for prayer to foster empathy and allow them to process their emotions, while going on strike allows them to make a difference. “Our students are seeing children being pulled from rubble, homes destroyed, and we don’t want them to feel helpless,” Ismail said.
A new Commonwealth Foundation report reveals the four largest government unions spent $27.9 million on Illinois politics from 2021-2022. The report also listed the 10 politicians who received the most public union PAC money. A spokesman said, “I hate to tell you this, but four of those top 10 do come from Illinois: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon and Illinois Supreme Court Justice Mary Kay O’Brien.”
The union boss who earns at least $289,000 and admonishes the “wealthy” to pay their “fair share” is now in arrears to two local governments. Davis Gates failed to pay her Chicago water, sewer and trash bills for at least three years, racking up $5,579 in fees by November after defaulting on a payment plan, and she failed to meet the deadline for paying $1,533 in penalties and back taxes on an undeserved property tax break in Indiana.
“I have known people like Claudine Gay my entire life and they are the reason why I never checked the black box on college and employment applications. If I had, I would not be a free individual today. As a child, I was fascinated by the story of my paternal grandparents’s interracial marriage in 1944 in segregated Chicago…. Today, the focus has been on how Gay hurt Asians and Jews, but it can never be forgotten that people like her hurt blacks far more and for such a sustained period of time, affecting multiple generations.”
The head of communications and the chief audience officer at Chicago Public Media announced today they are stepping down. The announcement of Berger and LeCompte’s departure comes a week after Chicago Public Media CEO Matt Moog announced he would be stepping down to “return to his roots as a tech entrepreneur.” After Moog announced he would leave after CPM finds a new CEO, it was revealed that union leadership at both the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, which are owned by Chicago Public Media, sought an investigation into allegations of a “hostile
Since 2018, all Illinois police officers must undergo training to better respond to rape survivors — a mandate designed, in part, to encourage more survivors to come forward (an estimated 75% of sexual assaults nationally go unreported and in Illinois, more than 4,000 rapes were reported last year, FBI data show). Avocates question whether that training requirement should extend to the state’s roughly 1,000 judges.
MHUB CEO and co-founder Haven Allen said hardtech is one business segment that hasn’t lacked for venture capital through the pandemic and concerns about a recession and rising costs. He said the more than 500 startups and small businesses mHUB has supported since its beginning in 2017 tend to set up shop in Chicago.
The pilot program is thought to be the first in the nation offered to inmates at the county jail level. “For folks who come into our custody, an ID isn’t just a nice thing to have in your wallet. It’s the only way you can get a job, or a work permit, or find housing,” Sheriff Tom Dart said. “There are a million things this throws up artificial hurdles for.”
City Council voted in November to buy a 6.5-acre site at 115th and Halsted streets for $1 and transform the vacant lot into an encampment site for migrants which would be shut down no later than Nov. 1, 2024, to make way for a 12-acre affordable housing and retail development slated for the site. State officials are “currently not involved with that site,” spokesperson Jordan Abudayyeh said.
There have been two interstate pipeline proposals that involve a route connecting Iowa and Illinois, and both were recommended for rejection by engineers of the Illinois Commerce Commission due to safety concerns and other reasons.
Currently, efforts to block funding to Hamas and other terror groups have focused on overseas work. Under the new legislation, U.S. nonprofits making that same mistake could lose their tax-exempt status.
the Local Government Revenue Recapture Act allows state taxing bodies to take the amount they “lost” to tax appeals refunds, total that up, and then just raise taxes that amount, effectively nullifying the appeals decisions and acting as a yearly new stealth, backdoor tax hike.
Among Illinois schools, one maintains a policy that most conspicuously enforces the culture of DEI oppression. That’s the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with its mandatory DEI loyalty policy for faculty.
Critics are right to call out Evanston Township High School for its segregation of minority students from white students in several Advanced Placement classes. The district’s hypocrisy is on full display. Administrators blame “white-supremacy” and racism to justify those segregated classes, but at the same time they expect little-to-nothing from most of their minority students.
Schools like Evanston Township High School are so obsessed with equity that they no longer care about merit. They blame white supremacy for the achievement gap between white children and minority children. If kids hear that throughout their learning, when they get to competitive courses you will have an excuse to move them to separate classes so they can perform.
Last weekend, at least 11 people were shot in Chicago.
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