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The deal Northwestern struck with the protesters — who hung a sign showing a crossed-out Star of David on the lawn’s fence — has drawn condemnations from a variety of groups and individuals.
In one email, assistant law professor Jesse Yeh told his students to let him know if they “need to miss class or need extension on your assignment for any reason. … This includes if you need to miss class for an extended period of time to exercise your right to protest. In Solidarity.”
“We’re simply not enforcing quality-of-life laws around our shelters,” said Ald. Raymond Lopez. “Politically, we have an environment that is making excuses for those low-level offenses as something that should be forgiven or ignored without realizing that it has a very real snowball effect in our neighborhoods.”
According to a report published in June 2023, the company known as Chicago Parking Meters raked in $140.4 million in parking meter revenue in 2022, the most the company had reaped since the lease began. However, CPM in recent months has filed complaints against the city, claiming it has still been shorted tens of millions of dollars.
“We’ve spent billions of dollars gathering information and reporting news at our publications, and we can’t allow OpenAI and Microsoft to expand the Big Tech playbook of stealing our work to build their own businesses at our expense,” said Frank Pine, executive editor for the MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing.
“Instead of meeting with us and working out a compromise that brings us within sight and sound of the DNC, the city has tried to shut us away in a corner,” said Liz Rathburn with Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Illinois Chicago.
During Wednesday’s protest, Jewish students have been offered a safe place to go or the right to counter-protest. Parents are asking for more. “I feel that the Jewish students need to see that there are consequences, if there is any hate speech, in order for them to feel that the trusted adults in their life are protecting them,” parent Rachel Gigloitti said.
While Southland College Prep adopts a lottery pick system for admissions and is not a selective enrollment school, it continues to draw significant interest, with over 300 students from the south suburbs vying for the 100 annual openings. Notably, minorities constitute 97 percent of the student body.
“Now we’re dealing with the aftermath [of passing the Pretrial Fairness Act] and the aftermath is terrible,” state Rep. Dan Caulkins said. “This horrific crime could have been prevented and this person should have been restrained and his wife should have been protected. … “There doesn’t seem to be any will in this building to actually do something that’s going to reduce crime.”
Chicago Ald. Anthony Napolitano, a former police officer, said the appetite right now of the “political movement against the police” is noticed by family members.
The U.S. Supreme Court moved several Illinois cases, and one challenging Maryland’s ban, to conference for May 16. One group of consolidated cases remains in the Southern District of Illinois U.S. Court with the expectation a trial on the merits will take place in July.
Much like the federal law, the state law does not impose specific mandates or establish any type of lending quotas on financial institutions. It does, however, require them to report on a periodic basis such things as the number and amount of mortgage loans and small business loans they make, the extent of their marketing activities, and their participation in community development and redevelopment programs.
Northwestern appeases its protesters. Florida enforces its rules. Columbia is a mess. In exchange for removing the tents, Northwestern will fund two visiting Palestinian faculty members for at least two years, scholarships for five Palestinian undergraduates and a safe space for Middle Eastern and North African Muslim students.
McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio doesn’t know what problem ranked choice voting would be solving. “I think cats and dogs understand what being outnumbered is,” Tirio said. “That’s one of the things that makes our democracy so accessible to all, is that we all understand if this candidate gets one more than that candidate, then that first candidate wins.”
The encampment officially began at 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to an Instagram post from DePaul University’s Divestment Coalition Encampment. The schedule for Tuesday’s encampment includes speakers, prayers, a teach-in and rally.
Under federal rules, Chicago has until the end of the year to allocate what remains of the $1.9 billion in pandemic financial aid the city received in 2021 under the American Rescue Plan Act, and until 2026 to spend it. Money not spent must be returned to the federal government.
All was quiet Monday and no arrests had been made, however, police clashed with demonstrators on Friday. According to the Champaign County State’s Attorney two men who were not university students were arrested and charged with mob action.
Abortion rights advocates say dedicating finite resources toward passage of a constitutional amendment in Illinois would be a waste at this point, given laws already on the books.
They have about 40 tents set up right now, including a medic tent and even an encampment library as they enter day two of their protest.
One proposal under consideration is House Bill 5492. The measure would establish paid internship and scholarship programs, subject to appropriation, for students in school support fields.
Illinois motorists already pay the second-highest gas taxes in the nation, and inflation adjustments just take them higher.
Around 20 million students nationwide are eligible for a private-school choice program, with 16 states offering “education savings accounts” that give parents greater control over how taxes will be used to educate their children.
“All of these year-round attractions in the city of Chicago will generate significant new revenue that will support my commitment to invest in people, and that means more revenue for mental health clinics, youth jobs, housing, investments and our community violence interrupters. Simply put, this is going to reinvigorate the entire city of Chicago,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.
After miraculously surging to two years highs in Nov 2023, Chicago PMI, a regional index of manufacturing health, has plunged for five straight months, with the last four months seeing the MoM declines accelerating. Against expectations of a rise to 45.0 (from March’s 41.4), April’s PMI data printed 37.9.
In making highly sought-after injectable medications like Wegovy, Mounjaro and Ozempic available to eligible enrollees in the state’s group health insurance program, Pritzker’s administration is seeking an estimated $210 million to fund the first full year of broadened coverage, starting July 1. The four-sentence provision was part of the 899-page budget approved the final day of the spring legislative session last May
If passed into law, the state’s Fuel Gas Detector Act would require gas alarms to be installed inside buildings. In cities such as Chicago, which has aging infrastructure, proponents of Senate Bill 1161 say this legislation could potentially save lives.
Luis Huesca had just gotten off a shift when he was fatally shot April 21 near his Gage Park home. Just over a year earlier, Andrés Vásquez-Lasso was shot and killed responding to a domestic incident in the same Southwest Side neighborhood. Officer Lucia Chavez said at Huesca’s funeral, “I lost my two classmates, my best friends, my brothers. This violence in this city took them away from me, from us.”
“From 2010-11 to 2023-24, the English-learner population in Illinois grew from 156,888 to more than 271,000. This number will continue to rise due to the growing number of newcomer students and as Illinois increases access to preschool.”
It’s beyond belief that a supposedly reputable journalism school could have Thrasher or any proponent of advocacy journalism among its faculty.
Ted joined Scott Slocum to talk about the huge potential cost to taxpayers for the Bear’s proposed new stadium, why the economics of publicly-funded sporting arenas don’t work, what the latest criminal justice statistics tell us about the SAFE-T Act’s impact so far, the latest developments on Chicago’s ongoing migrant crisis, and more.
Some programs will see their American Rescue Plan Act funding scaled back or canceled so other initiatives better aligned with the mayor’s vision can instead get the money, administration officials said. That includes starting back up the guaranteed income program launched during Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s tenure, but nixing her administration’s plans for a sobering center and support for low-barrier homeless shelters run by outside agencies.
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