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State Rep. Lisa Davis’ legislation would only legalize attacks on peace officers. Attacking any of the other professions would remain illegal. When she’s not crafting legislation, Davis is a defense attorney in the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender.
Gov. JB Pritzker announced the expansion plans last year, which include $231 million in state incentives under a program for clean manufacturing. Executives at Wieland Manufacturing, an international producer of copper and copper alloys, said the investment to a facility that employs 800 will make it sustainable for the long term.
However, the Illinois Principals Association opposes the idea. “This is a different challenge for unit districts than it might be for high school districts versus elementary school districts,” a spokesperson said. “They might have their own busing schedule that is separate from the high school district. That’s certainly a concern. We also have concerns about the amount of time it takes to complete graduation requirements for high schoolers in particular.”
The proposal comes as Freeburg High School, located about 25 miles from St. Louis, faces renewed criticism over its mascot, the “Midgets.” The activist group Mascots Matter filed a complaint in January with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
In January, the American Alliance for Equal Rights went to federal court alleging that Illinois is unconstitutionally forcing private entities to discriminate with its first-in-the-nation law requiring nonprofits to post online the demographics of their leadership. The DOJ called its motion to intervene in the lawsuit an “early step toward eradicating illegal race and sex preferences across the government.”
The CTU president says she has been a very patient negotiator. A strike, of course, could leave parents scrambling for childcare. “I live a real mom life. So, I’m trying like hell to honor that because I know how difficult it is. I need that pressure to be placed on our CEO, who is not a mom, by the way, so he may not understand the debt of that. I need people to put pressure on him to settle this,” Stacy Davis Gates said.
Illinois legislators were at each other’s throats the day after President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress. Among them, state Rep. Blaine Wilhour told majority Democrats at the statehouse complaining about the Trump administration to clean up their own house.
The mayor has claimed the expansion of speed cameras is aimed in large part at improving traffic safety, but his reliance on increased ticket revenues to balance his budget shows the truth: Chicago uses speed cameras to raise money. Analysis of Department of Finance data corroborates that, showing Chicago collected as much as $933 million from ticketing drivers since the speed cameras were first installed in 2013. In terms of tickets, that’s more than three for every Chicagoan.
Federal courts have ruled cities can discharge pension debt in bankruptcy despite restrictions in state constitutions. That makes Chapter 9 one of the few ways cities could reduce pension liabilities without an amendment to the state constitution.
Illinois’ April 1 elections are a chance for more than 600,000 Illinoisans to help fix the state’s biggest issues such as pensions, gerrymandering and unfunded mandates. Addison, Leyden, Lemont, Homer, Palos, Palatine, Wheeling and Winfield townships are giving voters the opportunity to weigh in on the state’s biggest issues.
“Mayor Johnson is going through a tough run and I’ve got to tell you, I’ve known a lot of major city mayors and he’s not at the top of the list,” Garry McCarthy, former superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, said. “I’ve never met a mayor who cannot have a conversation without bringing up Black and brown people as a talking point. And then he takes resources away from those neighborhoods, like ShotSpotter.”
Lion Electric was to be a key in Illinois’ EV strategy. The company nearly received another $50 million subsidy from the State of Illinois, but it failed to keep the required number of employees on staff.
“… Yes, Illinois’s choice may ‘frustrate’ implementation of ‘federal schemes,’ like the current federal executive’s (President Donald Trump) avowed commitment to conduct the largest mass deportation in American history,” the attorney general’s office wrote. “But this frustration is not obstacle preemption when the Tenth Amendment protects Illinois’s sovereign right not to cooperate in the President’s schemes.”
“Americans have been abused by a bloated unaccountable government” Rep. Mary Miller said. “We all knew that taxpayers were being abused, but the level of abuse to use the hard-earned money that taxpayers have had to cough up to promote evil in our country and around the world, to fund terrorists around the world, it is unbelievable.”
Lawmakers in the Capitol filed a bill that would make landlords set their property prices according to areas they are based in rather than using computers to set prices. This comes after the Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined other states in a lawsuit against top six landlords in the country for allegedly fixing rent prices across the nation using algorithms.
Through February, overall robberies and robberies with a firearm were down 39 percent, according to CPD. There was also a 40 percent decline in car thefts. Burglaries were also down 25 percent compared to this time last year.
State Rep. Curtis J. Tarver II is pushing a tax hike proposal that amends the Illinois Constitution to impose an additional 3 percent tax on income over $1 million. Revenue would be directed to school districts, but there’s no guarantee this plan to invest in education will make it to classrooms rather than being absorbed by district administration.
Another case filed in September 2021 has not yet reached judgment. In that case, a Cicero couple is accused of reporting one of their tenants to immigration officials after the tenant requested a repair in his apartment, according to the lawsuit.
Ted joined Chicago Tonight to talk about the Congressional House Republicans’ proposal to slow the increase in federal Medicaid spending by $880 billion over the next decade. Ted warned that we need to take a serious look at the program; that it’s been turned into an entitlement for the middle class instead of remaining focused on the poor and needy. And that’s driven state enrollment – and spending – to unsustainable levels.
The League of Women Voters long ago threw away its place as a neutral arbiter of issues and elections. Today, it’s a leading voice of the far left — a shrill, intolerant part of the cancel culture.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to discuss the current debate over Medicaid spending, why it’s so important to reduce the state’s enrollment in the program, Rahm Emanuel’s miserable record as Chicago mayor, the questions congressmen should ask Mayor Johnson during his Wednesday testimony on illegal migrants, and more.
“There’s no answer for this,” Ald. Anthony Napolitano said about how the city’s policies have impacted residents. “It hurt a city that is already facing an astronomical amount of crime here because of policies that have been passed by progressives and socialists. It’s made the criminal more of the victim and the victim more of the criminal.”
In all, the General Services Administration says it’s willing to sell 11 properties in Chicago. The biggest of them is the Kluczynski Building, at 230 S. Dearborn St., which has more than 1.1 million square feet of office space. Kluczynski tenants include the district offices of U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth.
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the only Illinois congressman on the House Oversight Committee, said the hearing could turn into “an attack on Chicago” when Mayor Brandon Johnson testifies. However, he plans to serve as a friendlier voice on the panel, using his time to emphasize the benefits of immigration to the city and the national economy.
“All bets are off on Bally’s plan to sell $250 million worth of shares in their permanent Chicago casino to investors from minority backgrounds.”
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