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This circumstance isn’t just a cooling off – it’s like it took a dip in Lake Michigan this January in the sub-zero temperatures. A range of high-end single-family houses, condominiums, and coops in the Gold Coast, Streeterville, and Lincoln Park neighborhoods are declining in value by the month.
Two Chicago Public School students were killed in a shooting as they exited the Innovations High School building in the Loop on Friday.
The most recent back-and-forth between the two came in response to the city’s recent shift in its migrant strategy: away from building new shelters or even increasing capacity of existing shelters, instead focusing on getting migrants out of shelters and into other forms of housing. The state had previously committed $65 million to building a shelter in Chicago in November – an effort that has still not come to fruition. “I’m deeply concerned,” Pritzker said Monday. “We do not have enough shelter as it is in the city of Chicago. The city has not told the state where they would
Among the acts outlawed by the new rules, which also allow public transit agencies across the state to enact such regulations, are verbally or physically threatening or harming someone while aboard a train, pushing or waving a gun at someone, harassment and acts of public indecency.
A Chicago state representative has called on the state to refuse to host the Democratic National Convention until the city receives federal funding for migrant care. Mayor Brandon Johnson is not on board with that idea, however.
The task force suggested a series of tax credits that could give money back to people who subscribe to local outlets, small businesses that spend money advertising in local news, and outlets that pay journalists at least $50,000 a year.
The debate over whether presidential candidates can be excluded from the state’s primary election ballots is playing out in Illinois. The Illinois State Board of Elections conducted petition objection hearings Friday in Chicago and Springfield for President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Terry Newsome of Darian is one of several people opposed to Biden being on the ballot, primarily because of his open border policy. “We’re letting all these different terrorists, known terrorists, to enter our country right now that’s infiltrating the United States of America,” Newsome said.
“Johnson joined other progressives around the country in calling for a ceasefire He said “the killings need to stop.” Funny, that’s what the residents of Chicago say.”
Delta-8 THC is legal in Illinois and 21 other states, but unlike marijuana, which is regulated, taxed and can only be sold in licensed dispensaries, Delta-8 can be sold in convenience stores and online.
“Johnson is preparing to evict illegal immigrants from shelters on Feb. 1, saying, ‘The flow of migrants that are coming into the city of Chicago and the flow to exit has not kept up.’ In other words, Johnson wants Chicago to be getting rid of as many illegal immigrants as it is taking in, and he has punted the expansion of shelter construction to the state, wanting shelters to be built outside of Chicago.”
The mayor is pulling back on accepting and caring for the continuing influx of migrants and shifting to his progressive agenda, like banning natural gas connections in most new construction, Rich Miller writes. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget that he passed last November deliberately underfunded programs for asylum-seekers. The meager appropriation could be exhausted by April, but nobody knows yet what the city plans to do when it reaches that point.
More than a year ago, voters in Wheeling Township approved a new property tax to fund mental health services. But due to a legal dispute with political overtones, advocates likely will have to go through another referendum and wait a couple more years before they could get funding. The controversy continues even while other suburban governments, from Schaumburg to Naperville townships and Will County, are implementing new voter-approved tax funding for mental health programs.
“I believe that six felony arrests in one day illustrates that migrant criminal activity is a real problem,” Oak Brook Chief of Police Brian Strockis said in a written statement on Wednesday.
Biden is failing, especially in the key swing states. “We had a poll come out in Michigan the other day and he’s down like eight points,” said Bevan. “And these are scary, scary numbers for Democrats, and the longer they continue the more I think you will hear about Michelle Obama. And the reason you’ll continue to hear about her because she’s the only answer to the question of ‘Who else?’”
“Enthusiasm for this reform continues to grow. Last September, Evanston adopted a multiple-match program for mayoral races.”
Naperville is not moving forward with a plan to have residents house migrants in their homes. The city was considering putting together a list of residents willing to bring migrants into their homes. But city staff decided there are other state and federal agencies putting together lists of shelters to house migrants, so it’s not necessary for Naperville residents to pitch in.
The Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice issued a strongly worded press release Thursday afternoon to correct what it says is significant misinformation circulating surrounding the mass murders in Joliet Sunday.
Ted joined Jeff Daly to talk about the true scope and cost of Illinois’ illegal immigrant crisis, how the advantage of Illinois’ flat income tax is being worn away, why Illinois is so uncompetitive compared to its neighbors, why Illinois has lost so many schoolchildren, and more.
Republicans on the Senate Commerce Committee are investigating Chicago’s housing of illegal immigrants at two airports in the city — asking whether the city is violating funding requirements, and accusing the city of being an “illegal immigrant magnet” with its sanctuary city policy.
The CTU’s Stacy Davis-Gates said, “Of course, when you have a Black man who is the mayor of this city advocating for the humanity of these Black children and for the equity of these Black children, of course they would put out an instrument that says something counter to that.”
Nearly four years on from the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the traditional American public education system remains in disarray. The virus exposed longstanding structural flaws in public schools’ capacity to respond to such crises, particularly thanks to the overwhelming influence of teachers’ unions. Now the unions are trying to hide the damage they have wrought by pushing elected officials to reject objective standards and school choice.
“Due to very serious concerns surrounding the immigration crisis, we are formally requesting the Illinois House of Representatives hold public hearings on this topic in Northern, Central and Southern Illinois, beginning with the City of Chicago. These people deserve to have their voices heard, publicly,” the letter states.
The Chicago Board of Education voted Thursday to renew agreements with 12 charter networks, impacting 49 schools. The decision followed months of pleading from charter school leaders, educators, and students. The board extended contracts for all of the schools up for renewal. It renewed most of the contracts by either three or four years, starting this July. The maximum extension allowed under state law is 10 years.
Over a dozen alderpersons from around the city signed their appeal in a letter to Mayor Brandon Johnson. They’re also calling for better handling of the migrant influx.
Just as the UAW has shrunk, so, too, have other industrial unions that represent other once-vibrant manufacturers whose businesses have changed as time passed. That’s why it was odd when the U.S. Department of Labor recently released a cheerleading — and misleading — press release touting increases in unionization to the tune of “139,000 more union members in 2023 than in 2022.”
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