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The fight to end lead contamination in drinking water is playing out with high stakes in the Midwest. The region accounts for a disproportionate share of the roughly 9.2 million lead pipes across the U.S.
Aldeman: The district has hired 2,000 teachers since 2018 and is paying them 16% more even as enrollment dropped by 38,000 students.
Comment: CORE is the ruling, militant faction of the Chicago Teachers Union, headed by Stacy Davis Gates.
The CTA’s Red Line extension, the O’Hare Airport modernization and a mass deportation that would transform a sanctuary city that has welcomed migrants are among the items Trump could target, senior mayoral adviser Jason Lee said.
Barrington Township voters accepted the proposal gauging residents’ interest on constitutional pension reform, with 73% voting “yes” and 27% voting “no” with all precincts reporting.
“We expect many of our school communities will be reeling today as our BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ students, families and colleagues grapple with the increased threats to their identities and well-being. It is a time to share solidarity, support and love while dedicating ourselves to uplift our collective needs in this harrowing moment.”
With the state’s notoriously cold winter just around the corner, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has joined a group of governors now demanding that grid operator PJM Interconnection take steps to address its record-high electricity rates.
Kamala Harris won among city voters, but the president-elect took more than 100 precincts, primarily on the Northwest and Southwest sides.
The results of Tuesday’s election will roil Chicago in massive ways. They suggest a rocky road ahead for Mayor Brandon Johnson, likely leave the city and state with an unprecedented lack of clout in Washington, raise questions about the future of U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and portend huge and to some extent conflicting impacts on the area’s business community.
Frogs have been on the decline in the Chicago area.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the aftermath of another shooting of a Chicago police officer, why it’s dangerous for so many crimes to be non-detainable due to the SAFE-T Act, why the state’s 2024 education results are so dismal despite politicians’ bragging about record graduation rates, and more.
Its passage could fuel efforts in Springfield in 2026, the year of the state’s next gubernatorial election, to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to authorize the new tax on Illinois millionaires.
With seven of the 10 races called by the Associated Press after midnight, the union’s endorsed hopefuls won three district seats. Candidates who received anti-CTU, pro-charter school campaign cash won three races. And, in a surprise, independents unaffiliated with either movement won one seat. With the union failing in six districts, a school system that has been under mayoral control for 30 years now looks likely to have a caucus of board members for the first time who aren’t in the mayor’s corner.
O’Neill Burke said that she would change the office that she once worked in as a prosecutor. O’Neill Burke ran against Bob Fioretti, who had Democratic support from Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, and Libertarian candidate Charles Kopinski.
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