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A 20-year-old man is in critical condition after he was shot while trying to stop a carjacking in the Austin neighborhood early Monday, police said.
The Illinois legislature’s decision to eliminate the state’s 1% grocery tax, but allow cities and villages to replace it with a 1% tax of their own, is receiving mixed reviews from suburban leaders.
Thirteen women and 95 men filed two separate lawsuits Friday, packed with disturbing allegations that guards, teachers and counselors at multiple juvenile detention centers around the state sexually assaulted inmates between 1997 and 2013. Last month, the former youth inmates’ attorneys sued on behalf of 95 other former youth inmates who allege they were sexually abused at Illinois juvenile detention centers between 1997 and 2017.
Ald. Debra Silverstein called the cardboard signage, posted on her office window, an attack on her religious identity and her belief in the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland.
Police said two men were trying to steal a catalytic converter from a blue Toyota Prius parked outside the school’s rectory shortly before 6 a.m., when a 37-year-old priest heard the noises and walked outside.
“This budget ignores the need for reform because it’s easier to put off painful corrections, especially in an election year. But, just like a credit card bill, someone always has to pay. How much the tab hurts depends on how long you let the late fees accumulate.”
CTU wants massive pay raises, stipends and additional personnel – all of which are within the traditional scope of bargaining. It also wants the city to create new housing, levy new taxes, construct new parking garages, undertake new environmental initiatives, divest pension funds from fossil fuels, fully fund infertility and abortion care for members, subsidize weight-loss surgery and drugs, add new members to the bargaining unit, and offer free CTA passes for all students and employees, among many other things.
Illinois’ Black unemployment rate for 2023 stood at 9.6 percent, the highest among the nation’s 10 most populous states. Illinois’ overall unemployment rate of 4.8 percent in April was the third highest in the nation behind Kentucky and California.
The so-called standard exemption increase will mean an extra $69 for families of four. The tax credit will once again be tied to inflation after lawmakers last year quietly untied it.
“Learning how to speak rationally about something you feel great passion for-– this is not a bad skill to master. Another good one is listening to people who disagree with you, and trying to understand why they disagree. … But encampments, signs, shouting, and slogans are not arguments. They do not make complex statements or buttress them with research. They are not a place of discourse and openness. “
The bill would even cover 501(c)(3) nonprofits like Wirepoints that research and write on political issues. That’s what we do. Illinois thinks they could bar us from making those meetings mandatory? Not a chance.
A bill awaiting Gov. Pritzker’s signature made headlines last month for renaming some “offenders” as “justice-impacted individuals.” The renaming comes as violent crimes continue to rise as part of a six-year streak.
“Chicago could keep paying off its bondholders and retirees by bleeding public services, hiking taxes, and driving out still more residents, but it would become a shell of its former self. A debt-ridden Chicago wouldn’t be the first, or last, great American city to become a byword for lost possibilities.”
This will be the first time alderpeople have publicly examined how the federal funds have been spent since October 2021, and comes after a report that city leaders have struggled to make good on promises to use the influx of cash from the federal government to repair the damage caused by the pandemic. Chicago’s entire budget for the federally funded programs is approximately $542 million, records show.
Over Memorial Day weekend, at least 41 people were shot, nine fatally, in gun violence across Chicago, police said.
Several arrests were made in connection with the fight.
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