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Included in the measure is a two-year moratorium on the construction of CO2 pipelines in Illinois, joining only California with a ban in place.
“No one has to ask me to lead. I just do it. In the words of Chaka Khan, ‘I do it naturally.’ This has nothing to do with the DNC,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.
A representative from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office said in an email that the decision not to pursue the charges filed by Northwestern police is consistent with the office’s policy not to prosecute peaceful protestors.
During the Feb. 5 Village Board meeting, more than a half-dozen Arab American residents spoke, imploring Pekau and the Orland Park Board of Trustees to adopt a resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. After several addressed the Board, the meeting grew raucous, with chants of “ceasefire now!”
“I don’t think that that’s the job of Springfield, to rescue the school districts that might have been irresponsible with the one-time money they received. Poor fiscal management on the part of a local government is not necessarily the responsibility of Springfield,” Gov. JB Pritzker said.
“Let’s step back under a decade ago to northwest Champaign County where People’s Gas, using the exact same technology to store natural gas below ground of the Mahomet Aquifer, had a massive leak,” Rose said. “Eight years later, those people still can’t drink the water out of their tap.”
At about 11:38 a.m., the 48-year-old female letter carrier was in front of a residence in the 12100 block of South Harvard when an unknown male offender approached her, police said. The letter carrier was shot multiple times.
During the spring session that ended in May, the Illinois General Assembly approved more than 450 bills out of both chambers. On Friday, Pritzker’s office announced dozens are now law, including a measure preventing professional license denial or disciplinary action against someone based solely on immigration status or an immigration violation.
The Supreme Court declined to hear cases challenging the Illinois ban until appeals courts give their final judgments. Raoul said his office will continue to defend the state’s prohibition of semiautomatic rifles.
Bertrand Bayeg sued his employer, saying they forced him and 366 colleagues to use an UltiPro Touchbase facial recognition timekeeping system without complying with consent and data deletion requirements of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
U.S. Rep. Mary Miller is also calling for Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to step down.
In a joint statement with U.S. Reps. Jared Huffman (D-California), Marc Veasey (D-Texas), and Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin), Garcia told Biden, “we must face the reality that widespread public concerns about your age and fitness are jeopardizing what should be a winning campaign.” Three other congressmen from Illinois – Mike Quigley, Brad Schneider, and Eric Sorensen – have also urged the president to drop out of the race for the White House.
Several lawmakers spoke out against the companies earlier this month and called on their colleagues in the General Assembly to pass laws restricting how the companies can increase rates and making it harder for them to purchase publicly owned systems.
“It didn’t look like anything was moving,” said Patrick De Haan, of GasBuddy. “No steam, no cooling. There were a lot of emergency generators outside so, that facility is not producing any gasoline, diesel or jet fuel.” He said at one pump in Mokena, just today alone, prices have jumped from $3.94 to $4.29 a gallon.
South Cook residents are right to be irate about their sky-high property tax hikes, where residents in the worst-off cities saw tax bills more than double in just one year. What’s worse is how that money is being squandered. A look at the top-paid school administrators across the Southland area shows dozens of officials getting paid big bucks to deliver distressing educational outcomes.
Ted joined the Ray Stevens Show to talk about why the Democrats’ critical thinking skills have faltered, why Gov. Pritzker’s attacks on Trump and his supporters are so damaging to the nation, who might have the momentum to challenge Donald Trump and JD Vance, and more.
“Donald Trump is a convicted felon, liable for sexual assault, and a congenital liar. He is a man who remains wholly unfit for the office of the presidency, both in temperament and character. His attacks on the most vulnerable and on the middle class demand that we come together to defeat him in November.”
Dana Levenson, Chicago’s chief financial officer from 2004 to 2007: “There is no crisis with Chicago’s pension funds. At least not now. But indications are that a crisis is looming large when it comes to the ability of Chicago’s pension funds to pay benefits to current and future annuitants…We will likely see a situation whereby one of the four direct city pension funds — Fire, Laborers, Municipal Employees or Police — runs out of money and a monthly check written by one of these funds to its retirees is significantly less.”
David Greising, of the Better Government Association: “If the (school) board passes its proposed budget next week, despite the mayor’s deep misgivings, it will be an exercise of independence rarely seen from an appointed group in Chicago.”
Altogether, City Hall has more than $770 million on its books in water and sewer customers’ unpaid bills owed by tens of thousands of people and companies. Suburbs behind on their water bills include Robbins ($10.8 million, going back a decade), Harvey (at least $4.8 million, down from more than $20 million because of a court-ordered payment plan), and Riverdale ($635,000).
“But politics, like life, isn’t fair. And as long as this election is instead litigated over which candidate is more likely to be held accountable for public gaffes and ‘senior moments,’ I believe that Biden is not only going to lose but is also uniquely incapable of shifting that conversation.”
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