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The earliest that teachers could go on strike is Feb. 5. The last walkout happened in the fall of 2019 and lasted 11 days.
On the Senate floor, state Sen. Andrew Chesney said the measure to repeal the mandate for someone legally changing their name to publish the action publicly will shield illegal immigrants in the state after living in Illinois for only three months. He said it was convenient that the measure advanced as snow paralyzed the capital city. “Because this is the cover up. This is how you cover up all the wrongdoings of state policy,” Chesney said.
“Illinois has barred those incarcerated from accessing MAP funding since 1987, a decision that limits their access to education and potential for rehabilitation. Now is the time for Illinois lawmakers to correct this, aligning with positive legislative trends across the country.”
Pension reform and Chicago Transit system are two topics Bunting expects to see brought forth.
“Illinois and DC are the most blatant continuing offenders,” says Christina Martin, a senior attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation. Both sell tax liens to private investors, not unlike what happened to Fair. “And five states theoretically ended home equity theft, but gave owners such a short time to claim their surplus proceeds that most will fail to recover their own money,” she adds.
“House Republicans, in partnership with President Trump, are ready to address our biggest challenges head on, from securing the border and keeping America safe to extending tax relief and reducing the bloated size of government,” U.S. Rep. Mike Bost said.
Brandon Lee of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights said that the “organization is preparing for Chicago and Illinois to be targeted by creating a plan to connect community members to local rapid-response teams.”
“From City Hall to teachers at Chicago Public Schools, we have seen blatant antisemitism that has gone unchecked. … When I recently expressed concern on X for Jewish children in CPS, I received a disturbing response from a CPS teacher and Chicago Teachers Union delegate. These are the very people with whom we are supposed to trust our children. … Additionally, multiple Chicago aldermen have been outspoken in their anti-Zionism since Oct. 7, 2023.”
The owner of an East Loop office building where DePaul University left behind a big office during the COVID-19 pandemic is facing a nearly $62 million foreclosure lawsuit, adding to the deep pool of distress ailing the downtown office market.
Hanging over discussion in the capitol the next 6 months will be a projected $3.2 billion budget deficit. Republicans are already focusing on the shortage in revenue — and calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to keep spending down in the new year. “We need to look at where we are actually spending money because we have to focus on Illinois taxpayers, their tax dollars,” Sen. John Curran said.
The crimes are the latest in a series of similar robbery sprees that have hit the area since November 22.
“Gov. Pritzker pushed the policy through his Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHR) in December 2021 about non-discrimination protections for ‘transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming students’ under the Illinois Human Rights Act of 1979.”
The school board should serve as a power check to Mayor Brandon Johnson, according to CPS alumnus and parent Mike Ngan. Johnson’s current seven-member board — appointed in October, and new president, Sean Harden, appointed last month — is a “consolidation of political power. … That’s not an appropriate thing to do,” Ngan said. “As a CPS parent, I don’t think any of our opinions were registered. There’s no reason for me to believe that firing him or not firing him is for the benefit of the students or the CPS system.”
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is rebuilding under Gov. JB Pritzker after more than a decade spent shedding inspectors, slowing the policing of air and water pollution and feuding with the state attorney general’s office. During the past two years alone, the agency added 261 new employees, according to state records; Its budget rose to $871 million in 2024, nearly double the amount spent in 2020.
The government there remains shut down over disagreements between Supervisor Tiffany Henyard and two township trustees. Residents who rely on the bus service feel stuck in the middle.
Unfortunately, many Republican members of Congress don’t seem to understand that federal subsidies for wind and solar included in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are the driving forces behind the emerging reliability crisis, and any continued support for these taxpayer handouts will bring America’s grid closer to the brink of blackouts. The region most at risk, which includes roughly the southern two-thirds of Illinois, is the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), which could see rolling blackouts during normal summer and winter grid conditions as early as the summer of 2025, meaning it won’t take a freak winter storm or
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