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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s letter to Illinois Senate President Don Harmon last month vowing not to shut down selective enrollment schools was directly edited by a Chicago Teachers Union lobbyist — and was preceded by an earlier version that made no such promise, the Tribune has learned.
Newly released Chicago Police records indicate Chicago Public Schools’ top security official denied detectives access to school video surveillance footage at a high school where a former student shot four others and that the school’s principal discouraged a witness from cooperating with homicide investigators the afternoon of the shooting.
Speaker Welch asserts lawmakers have sweeping and nearly unchallengeable powers to change ballot access rules whenever and however they like.
Despite an increase in funding for wind farm operators, wind production was down in 2023. According to the Energy Information Administration, last year saw record highs in installed wind capacity and subsidies, but production is falling in Illinois and around the country
One of those tactics the judges may be growing weary of is the near-manic coverage by the Chicago media on behalf of the offenders seeking release from prison. If so, Chicago judges have good reason to doubt the substance, motives, and integrity of the Chicago media.
Amid a Moody’s report describing Illinois as a below average performer in job and income growth, the governor is set to sign legislation opponents say will open business owners up to frivolous lawsuits. House Bill 2161 is now on the governor’s desk. The bill seeks to prevent discrimination by an employer based on an employee’s family responsibilities.
Bell co-founded the explanatory journalism site Vox.com and eventually oversaw other media brands, such as Eater and The Verge. She also worked on digital strategy for The Washington Post.
A group of health and environmental organizations are asking a state quasi-judicial body to ban the sale of all new gas-powered cars and a large percentage of diesel trucks by 2035 after failing to sell Gov. J.B. Pritzker on the idea.
Chicago Firefighters Union President Patrick Cleary said timely patient care could be in jeopardy.
Delia Ramirez of Illinois, another member of the Squad who won her race in 2022, said Bowman’s loss should be a rallying cry for those on the left wing.
Most lawbreaking was fine when protests purported to be about George Floyd in 2020, but when they are directed at a Democratic convention, well, we can’t have any of that, right?
If America’s big states are any indication, it’s the better managed, less expensive states that are winning out over the government-centric, high-cost states. Illinois, New York and California continued their streak as the nation’s biggest losers of residents and their wealth to other states. North Carolina, Texas and Florida remained the nation’s big winners.
With property tax bills set to hit mailboxes next week, the median bill jumped a record-high 19.9% across the southern portion of the county, including bills that more than doubled in Dixmoor and Phoenix.
So far this year, revenue is lagging expectations. The city has collected $934.3 million through April, 17% below the estimate in its 2024
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