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Illinois now ranks as the least affordable state for housing in the Midwest, with 1 in 3 households paying more than 30% of their income for housing as property taxes continue to rise.
DePaul University officials say workers have been fixing an estimated $180,000 worth of damage to the Quad and surrounding areas. Protesters also set up encampments at the University of Illinois, Illinois State, Northwestern, the University of Chicago and other schools.
“Governor Pritzker, we are well aware that you do not wish to interfere with the FBI or Lightfoot investigations. However, those investigations are for federal crimes. … It is not the job of the FBI to enforce the Illinois Open Meetings Act. Lori Lightfoot cannot force the Henyard administration to answer FOIA requests.”
“If teachers unions were true advocates of affordable, excellent education, they would not concentrate efforts on restricting charter schools nor designate an additional $10.2 billion to prioritize the environment and social justice over education. Chicago parents should rightly question how electric buses, carbon neutrality, and charter school limits will improve teachers’ employment conditions and the education of their pupils.”
Stacy Deemar, 52, of Wilmette, contended she has been discriminated against by her employers through their “racial equity” policies, which she claims has stigmatized her and subjected her to a hostile educational environment.
“There’s a lot of systemic racism in housing, but we have to unpeel the law to find a solution,” said Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson. “Bandaid fixes are no longer sufficient for addressing the challenges we face in Broadview and across Proviso Township.”
That contributed to a 73 percent rise in year-over-year adjusted gross revenue. Handle was just shy of $848 million, a 27.4 percent increase from June 2023, and year-to-date wagering surpassed $6.5 billion.
Said Illinois African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission Chairman Marvin Slaughter Jr., a reparations scholar, “That might take a little bit longer than some people may have hoped. But also, when it comes to the reparations space, we’ve been demanding reparations since emancipation in 1865. As one of the younger members of the reparations space nationally, I’m OK with moving a little bit slower and making sure that we get it right…”
Jim Dey: “Protesters are no more entitled to declare a portion of the campus a protest zone that they control than they are to seize a classroom building or research center. For a handful of faculty sympathizers to suggest any group is entitled to engage in action of that nature and then physically resist police orders to clear out is a stunning combination of ignorance and arrogance.”
The theft of Prada is part of an ongoing troubling crime trend in Chicago, and comes as approximately 50,000 visitors descend on the city to participate in the Democratic National Convention Aug. 19-22. While murders have dropped in Chicago since 2020, sexual assaults, robberies, battery, theft, and motor vehicle theft have all increased.
Tension between migrants and security in the Home Depot parking lot was palpable Friday morning. Multiple security and CPD officers patrolled the area where migrants gathered on the sidewalk looking for day jobs, calling out “Work! Work!” to passing cars. Some of the migrant men smoked weed. Across the parking lot, a tow truck was called to remove a migrant’s car. But as the driver started towing the car across the lot, dozens of migrants ran after it, yelling expletives. They pulled the car down off the towing block.
The CTA last week released its revised plan for its All Stations Accessibility Program, or ASAP, which would make it the first legacy transit system more than a century old to be 100% accessible. Five years into that plan, the CTA hasn’t added a single elevator, and its estimated price tag has more than doubled to $4.9 billion.
Under the law, battery sellers or distributors will have to develop a recycling stewardship program for small- to medium-sized batteries by 2026. Medium-sized batteries include those made for electric bikes and scooters. The measure is similar to other required recycling programs in Illinois, funded by producers of goods being recycled, such as the one for paint disposal.
For the first time in more than a century, Illinois has updated the state’s child labor regulations, a move the AFL-CIO applauds.
In addition, more than 100 vacant positions were eliminated from future budgets, including two vice president positions.
The new law will ban landlords from terminating leases, increasing rent, decreasing services or threatening lawsuits. It also states that landlords can no longer refuse to renew a lease after a tenant complains about code violations or seeks help from elected leaders.
Senate Bill 3463 amends the Juvenile Court Act, requiring state courts to clear the records of all young people who were charged as juveniles two years after their time served. With the bill, the state will also automatically schedule expungement hearings upon their release, thereby speeding up the process.
Protesters in the Loop said this is likely their last protest before the Democratic National Convention comes to Chicago in just 10 days, but they are ready to march again if needed.
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