Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer said. “We are spending close to $3 million each month on healthcare…We know we have to deal with that…It is getting cold, certainly there has to be an issue that we have to deal with is from a homelessness perspective.”
Northwest Municipal Conference Executive Director Mark Fowler said he hadn’t heard from any of the group’s 42 member municipalities — of which nine are non-home-rule — that didn’t intend to opt out of the act in some fashion.
Johnson earned the lowest approval rating for a Chicago mayor starting his or her term in modern history in mid-November: 28% approval rating. It’s a sign that Chicago may not be responding to his liberal policy agenda, of which he has earned several successes in the past few months. His lowest approval ratings came from crime and public safety at 66%, followed by 64% in immigrant management and 63% in housing and homelessness.
One law provides that a school building’s emergency and crisis response plan must include a way for law enforcement to rapidly enter a school building in the event of an emergency. Another law allows a substitute teacher who has filled a vacancy left by a licensed teacher to teach in an emergency situation for 90 days or until the end of the semester.
The Rent Relief Act of 2023 creates a new tax credit for renters and would cover a percentage of the difference between 30 percent of their adjusted gross income and the actual cost of rent and utilities, capping the benefit at 100 percent of Small Area Fair Market Rent. “Direct grant assistance and affordable housing are essential but only help a limited number of households,” said Davis.
Illinois Retail Merchants Association President and CEO Rob Karr concurred that when final numbers are in, overall sales should be up around 3% to 4%. “Inflation abated late this year and that has helped somewhat. Up is up and that’s always a good thing,” he said.
The jail is averaging 100 fewer inmates per day, making the average about 220 inmates. In 2022, the jail was averaging 323 inmates each day.
While attending a Kwanzaa celebration Tuesday, Mayor Brandon Johnson lashed out at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. “He sent a plane to the City of Chicago, which is some real grave concern and now he’s literally dropping off individuals alongside the road,” Johnson said. “His irresponsible, very raggedy, reckless approach is not going to prevent us as a city to come up with some structure and some order and some calm.”
Senate Bill 2073 allows those sentenced to life in prison while under the age of 21 to become eligible for parole review. Another law has to do with the resentencing of prisoners, according to Jenny Vollen Katz of the John Howard Association: “One is around the earned program sentencing credits and that they are going to apply retroactively. I know there is still conversation on how they will implement that law.”
“Some readers may be imagining the intrigue as ambivalent delegates wonder if they really have to nominate Joe Biden for president again. Others may puzzle over Democrats’ decision to gather in Chicago, a violent and expensive monument to the failures of progressive governance. But the choice of venue is even worse than many realize and seems bound to inspire a rush of regret. A series of events will serve to highlight not just Democratic dysfunction but corruption as well.”
The city next month is expected to announce the order in which hundreds of Black residents will receive assistance. They are the children or grandchildren of Evanston residents who were affected by a redlining era in the city between 1919 and 1969.
“Though capital funding for transit comes largely from federal sources, operating expenses come largely from the farebox….When emergency federal funding expires, the transit agencies that move passengers across the Chicago region and beyond will face a budget shortfall of more than $730 million annually.
The promise of tax relief was an essential part of Gov. JB Pritzker’s sales pitch for the consolidation, and the pension change has been one of the governor’s go-to responses when pressed on what his administration is doing to address high property taxes. But Amanda Kass, a public finance and pensions expert at DePaul University, explained, “Potentially, you could have a situation where taxpayers don’t see true property tax relief, but their property taxes aren’t as high as they would have been had there not been consolidation.” That scenario is unlikely to appease residents in a state with some of
The drop-off in Westmont mirrors similar suburban drop-offs in Aurora, Manhattan and Elburn, where migrants were told to board trains to Chicago after being dropped off. In Manhattan, they learned that there were no more Chicago-bound trains for the evening and headed to a station in Joliet to board a train. In Kankakee, a bus driver told migrants they had arrived in Chicago when arriving at a gas station in the rural city over 60 miles south of the Loop.
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Christina Shutt, executive director for the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, said she, along with the museum’s historians, wanted to show how the state is more than a “flyover place,” but rather a location where people from all walks of life have settled and cultivated their own meaning for the term “home.”
Starting in 2024, people who are falsely depicted in sexually explicit images or videos will be able to sue the creator of that material. The law is an amendment to the state’s existing protections for victims of “revenge porn,” which went into effect in 2015. Some sponsors of the legislation, notably chief sponsor Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, have indicated interest in further regulating the use of artificial intelligence.
The state made approximately 30 hotel rooms available Saturday night, with the remaining hotel rooms for up to 200 people becoming available the following day. Migrants placed in hotel rooms will be moved to a former CVS in Little Village when construction of that shelter is completed in January. Additional shelter sites are being evaluated.
Among them, a migrant man was shot to death just before 12:45 p.m. near a Gage Park migrant shelter in the 2400 block of West 55th Street. The 28-year-old man was on the sidewalk when a vehicle pulled up, and someone inside fired shots, striking him in the head, police said.
Lopez said while placing blame is nothing new for Mayor Brandon Johnson, he’s “blaming everyone except the person who needs to get the blame,” calling out President Joe Biden.
The day after a bus carrying Texas migrants attempted to drop passengers at Manhattan’s Metra station, Manhattan Mayor Mike Adrieansen signed an executive order imposing restrictions, fines and other punishment for buses dropping off migrants illegally, and a declaration of emergency aimed at preventing future instances. “Our goal is to protect our residents’ health and safety, and also those who are on these buses,” he said.
“This City Council is the most progressive in Chicago’s history. As a member, I have proudly supported women’s rights, worker’s rights and immigrant rights. Is it too much to ask for them to also support the rights of Jews to live without fear of rocket attack or terrorist infiltration?”
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