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State Rep. Sonya Harper filed House Bill 1227 last month to create the Slavery Disclosure and Redress Ordinance, requiring corporations seeking to do business in Illinois to pay reparations if the company had any ties to slavery.
The spending plan’s summary allots $20 million for reproductive health initiatives, including $10 million for a public-facing navigation hotline to centralize and streamline appointment-making, $5 million for a learning/training collaborative for providers and $2 million for freestanding reproductive health care clinics.
“According to an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report, the system by which members of the Chicago Police Department are reviewed and recommended for discipline lacks consistency and fairness. The OIG concluded agencies charged with investigating CPD members do not operate with sufficient guidance and controls to ensure procedural fairness and consistency. This is a serious problem.”
“For almost as long as lawmakers have been fighting for control, experts and researchers have been bemoaning the results.”
“The training relies on separate datasets to show anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hate crimes. For anti-Semitic attacks, it cites official FBI data. But for Muslim attacks, the training showed unverified figures from the Council on American-Islamic Relations — without citing the source. As a result, the training falsely suggests there were five times more incidents against Muslims than Jews.”
“The insinuation by some that this infrastructure bond issuance would somehow be used to pay for pension payments at Chicago Public Schools is outright erroneous. Those who propagate such falsities earned their finance degrees through scrolling on social media and only add to the chaos when they try to promulgate falsehood in the public square as factual discourse.”
The investigation was spurred by anonymous complaints, which included wide-ranging allegations, including workplace sexual relationships, harassment of female officers, racism, special treatment of some officers and inconsistency in police policies.
Fellow-to-faculty programs have seeded academia with activists. The University of Illinois Chicago has recruited 49 Bridge to Faculty Fellows since 2020.
The state currently requires treatment hospitals to provide vouchers to pay for ambulance, forensic, lab, and follow-up healthcare services for survivors. This plan would allow people to use the voucher to help get transportation to and from hospitals or other treatment centers.
About two-thirds of respondents said the top issue facing the city was crime.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said the federal lawsuit against Illinois was ‘garbage’ and promised his state would put up a fight. Bondi issued a stark warning to the Democrat governors on Friday telling them “you better comply.'” “‘Bring it on,” Bondi said. ‘We will protect Americans. When they say they are tough and have grit, really? You are protecting illegal aliens over American citizens?”
State of Illinois records show state support has soared since IAC made its last filing with the IRS. State budget line items promise millions to build IAC a new headquarters, to help it build housing for members, and to fix its HVAC system.
From 2020 – 2025, Illinois taxpayers have given the IHCC 43 separate contracts and grants totaling $11,481,145, according to the Illinois State Comptroller. Annual IHCC Revenue was $3,426,614 in 2023, according to the group’s latest available Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 990 filing. Government/taxpayer grants made up $2,246,463 of this revenue (66 percent).
The bill, backed by county Treasurer Maria Pappas, calls for an open auction after a tax sale, through which a property owner could recoup some of its value. As it stands today, people who buy a home’s unpaid taxes can eventually get the deed simply by paying late property taxes and fees, effectively pocketing the home’s value.
“It was just one line item in Gov. JB Pritzker’s budget proposal Wednesday, pausing the final shift of the state’s motor fuel sales taxes to the road fund. But for drivers, road builders and lovers of convoluted Illinois legislative history, it means a lot.”
Construction of the corn wet-milling plant would employ 800 to 1,000 workers and would take an estimated three years to complete.
“There comes a point where things stop looking like accidental oversights and start looking like outright hostility to ethics and oversight measures. If the mayor’s allies continue to obstruct needed reforms, it’s time for an independent City Council to chart its own course, starting with prompt passage of the Inspector General’s recommended language,” said Bryan Zarou, the Better Government Association’s vice president of policy.
“What transpired in this affluent Chicago suburb was a canary in the coal mine” for opposition to radical indoctrination in schools. The canary lived. Let the bookends be February 28 2017 and 2025 on DEI’s era, and let the pages from that time gather dust.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office says it’s facing the imminent prospect of closing out the 2024 budget with a deficit if the Board of Education doesn’t agree to make a controversial $175 million pension payment by March 30, raising the stakes in an ongoing dispute with the school district. City Chief Financial Officer Jill Jaworski said the city will have to reach into reserves to cover the shortfall.
City officials would have an additional $87 million to spend on a host of programs, but the Chicago City Council used those funds to balance the city’s 2025 budget and avert a property tax hike. That means the City Council reduced the amount of federal money available to the city to fuel a wide variety of social service programs until the end of 2026 by nearly 38 percent to balance the city’s budget without a single sentence of debate about what those cuts will mean for Chicagoans who have yet to regain the ground they started to lose five years
The ages of the victims range from 16 to 61.
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